FROM: So I read ‘Diamond Age'

I did not like the book. I think this will the last Stephenson book I read. 

His vision of the future is too messy. I’ve never been to Hong Kong, but reading Stephenson always feels like I feel when I look at pictures of Hong Kong. His vision of the future is extremely cluttered with gadgets and accessories and a cacophony of people shoved up against each other operating from wildly different frameworks.

Maybe tomorrow will be like that. He might be right! But that doesn’t mean it’s the picture I want to put in my imagination.

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