Bots will overrun humans on the internet in generative AI's next massive disruption. Why it matters: The internet connected ...

The defining book that spawned a genre of cyberpunk, AIs, hackers, and countless futuristic worlds. Snow Crash, by Neal ...

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Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Atlantic Books, 18.99 hardback) IN a world not unlike ours stand great Concents, secluded communities akin to our monasteries but devoted to science rather than faith.

Every time I read about another advance in AI technology, I feel like another figment of science fiction moves closer to reality. Lately, I’ve been noticing eerie parallels to Neal Stephenson’s 1995 ...

In Stephenson’s novel, the Primer looks like a hardcover book, but each of its “pages” is really a screen display that can show animations and text, and it responds to its user in real time ...

AI is advancing even faster than sci-fi visionaries like Neal Stephenson imagined In Stephenson's novel 'The Diamond Age,' a device called the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer offers emotional, social ...

Three recent developments in AI – in video games, wearable technology and education – suggest that building something like Stephenson’s Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer is possible.

Seth Godin is the best-selling author of Purple Cow and This Is Strategy: Make Better Plans. Godin is a member of the Marketing Hall of Fame and the coordinator of The Carbon Almanac. In this ...

Both Stephenson (Diamond Age, 1995) and Bear (Blood Music, 1988) wrote, at a fairly early stage, stories/novels that featured nanotechnology. For example, Diamond Age’s ‘partially artificial ...

The author of “Einstein,” “Steve Jobs,” and, most recently, “Leonardo da Vinci,” has a weakness for cyberpunk dating to the 1980s: William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson.