It’s fascinating how Neal Stephenson spends paragraphs explaining things that don’t need to be explained, but also manages perfectly succinct and beautiful high context phrases like “a thoroughly non-ironic dinner at Applebee’s”
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I think the problem is Neal Stephenson is very smart and has a lot of niche knowledge but can’t tell which of it his readers will and won’t know what and so he just explained what the word “biometric” means
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I've been thinking lately that the problems of nonlinear narrative are basically the same problems as communicating with an audience with unknown & heterogeneous knowledge
