I was fascinated with your vision of a world finely split by so many moral and idealogical factions against the background of an emerging new technology which (almost) everyone feared yet wanted to control. In The Diamond Age, Nell finally succeeds in obtaining the key to 'Seed' [nano]Technology.
Firstly, what do you think would really happen if Nanotechnology ever became so ubiquitous as to give the 'man on the street' the resource to create what he wants?
Unbridled curiosity has given the world many nasty surprises - do you envisage a time where moral ideals are interwoven into the fabric of scientific pursuit such that we can have the foreknowledge to save ourselves from ourselves? (I think we would be dead within moments should 'Seed' technology become prevalent in the foreseeable future)
Thanks for your work Neal - I love all of it! I Rate Snow Crash as one of the best works of SFiction ever:-)
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I was fascinated with your vision of a world finely split by so many moral and idealogical factions against the background of an emerging new technology which (almost) everyone feared yet wanted to control. In The Diamond Age, Nell finally succeeds in obtaining the key to 'Seed' [nano]Technology. Firstly, what do you think would really happen if Nanotechnology ever became so ubiquitous as to give the 'man on the street' the resource to create what he wants? Unbridled curiosity has given the world many nasty surprises - do you envisage a time where moral ideals are interwoven into the fabric of scientific pursuit such that we can have the foreknowledge to save ourselves from ourselves? (I think we would be dead within moments should 'Seed' technology become prevalent in the foreseeable future) Thanks for your work Neal - I love all of it! I Rate Snow Crash as one of the best works of SFiction ever :-)