Krimel, I was aware of the Gibson references, I'll check out the Vinge one.
Yeah, cyberpunk. Just got through Anathem. Not cyberpunk, but more along the lines of J. Campbell's mythology treatise. Kind of reminds me of the Canticle for Leibowitz too. Thanks, Mark On Jan 16, 2010, at 12:35:19 PM, Krimel <[email protected]> wrote: From: Krimel <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MD] Mediated Objectivism and me Date: January 16, 2010 12:35:19 PM PST To: [email protected] [Mark] All this exchange is done through avatars. Neal Stephenson has a good book about where this is going in the future. It is called Snow Crash and is a good read if you have the time. [Krimel] OMG, agreement again. But just to expand. This was a matter first treated in fiction by Vernor Vinge in a short story entitled "True Names". Three of William Gibson's novels, Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive spell it out nicely as well as does Tad Williams', Otherland series. In fact this kind of writing has evolved into its own genre, cyberpunk. -------------------------------------------- [John] Tits. Violence. Crime solving. Facile Cosmological Hubris. That's what sells, Krimel. As you yourself testify. [Krimel] Tits? On TV? Sounds like someone has premium cable channels. If you dropped the cable, you might notice that PBS isn't selling anything but support for their programs. [John] John Carl, avatar of himself [Krimel] FYI, Case and I are both avatars. We answer to an unknown higher power who speaks through us. Our only consolation is that our eternal digital form will out last his transient analog meat by centuries. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
