The Diamond Age

Posted by Nicholas Blumhardt | February 29, 2008 18:12

I don't want to stray too far from the usually dry technical content of this blog :) but The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson deserves an exception.

His earlier novel, Snow Crash, is something of a cyberpunk masterpiece set in the virtual world of tomorrow. Its about computers, an ancient Sumerian god, linguistics and a katana-wielding pizza delivery driver. It wasn't a hard sell.

The Diamond Age, on the other hand, is about nanotechnology, and well, a girl's schoolbook... As much as I loved Snow Crash it has taken me years to get around to reading it.

And, it is brilliant. The world of The Diamond Age is so easily traced back to the world we know today, but in most other respects, especially social ones, eerily foreign.

Advanced nanotechnology as imagined by Stephenson changes the way people work, interact and think, even more than the Internet has changed us.

Get your copy fresh from a matter compiler (!!!) near you!

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