Makes sense from eloi/morlock perspective, but I think it’s too late now. I didn’t make up the terms btw. Unclear origin somewhere in 2013. Counter case: current usage maps better to social class if not to architecture. Fun fact: among Discworld dwarves, “down” is higher statushttps://twitter.com/john_c_palmer/status/1151862500679401474 …
The eloi/morlock ref is to Stephenson’s “in the beginning was the command line” essay, not H. G. Wells original.
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Snow crash was 1992, the essay was 1999. I expect he thought the idea through and connected it to eloi/morlock in the interim. Worth a read. He explicitly points out that in his version, the tech morlocks would be a rare advanced species unlike in Wells’ original - 2 more replies
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