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@me oh, yeah, I saw it thanks, I wondered if either of them talked to @sacha about this previously as well.

@me
Iirc when I interviewed @sacha about her experience doing this, she said basically people look at you funny when you're like this whereas an idea is that if you had a screenreader you could use that subtly instead of the displays and pass as a non-cyborg in groups of humans. It's definitely cool.

@screwtape @me @sacha @cwebber
#snowcrash #gargoyle

@mdhughes @screwtape @me @sacha @cwebber
Note the sartorial elegance in this 1980 photo of Steve Mann, "The Father of Wearable Computing":
http://wearcam.org/steve5.jpg
https://wearcam.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann_(inventor)

P.S. His related 2001 book "Intelligent Image Processing" was innovative; seminal; excellent.
http://wearcam.org/textbook.htm

He also wrote the 2001 "Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer" but I never read it.

P.S. I'm puzzled why the above jpg isn't showing up inline without clicking it.

@dougmerritt
Onto the reading list
@mdhughes
#gargoyle is new to my lexicon
Now, to actually read Snowcrash, even as I'm eagre to figure out what happened next in Murderbots, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, That Portuguese author, this grammar thing I'm utterly failing to write, ...
@me @sacha @cwebber

@screwtape @mdhughes @me @sacha @cwebber
Mind you, I liked Snowcrash a lot, but it is not a very serious book. It began life as a background theme for a video game, according to the author, and when that fell through, he fleshed it out as a whole book.

It's therefore not too surprising that it has many silly aspects. But it's fun.

His later books get much more serious.

@dougmerritt @screwtape @mdhughes @me @sacha @cwebber that being said, it’s a much more serious book than, say, Ready Player One

@flyingsaceur @screwtape @mdhughes @me @sacha @cwebber
True!
For some reason serious-minded people seem to object to Snowcrash more, though.

@dougmerritt @screwtape @mdhughes @me @sacha @cwebber I remember Stephenson getting Serious when he went all in on Thomas Pynchon, Cryptonomicon was Gravity’s Rainbow as the Baroque Cycle was to Mason & Dixon, I guess. I don’t think much about The Diamond Age

@flyingsaceur @dougmerritt @screwtape @me @sacha @cwebber I flunked out reading Quicksilver, ignored the rest of that series. And SevenEves was appallingly stupid in each of three sections (physics, biology, sociology, & languages don't work like that).

But until then, The Big U, Zodiac, Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Diamond Age, Interface had a *LOT* of valuable insights to the nightmare 21st C we've ended up in.

@mdhughes @flyingsaceur @screwtape @me @sacha @cwebber
De gustibus non est disputandum.

But I grew up reading comic books, fantasy, and science fiction, before I learned physics, biology, sociology, and linguistics, so that vastly increased my tolerance for authors misunderstanding academic subjects.

And almost everyone gets these things wrong whether they know it or not, and the very few who actually do understand them often put their understanding on a shelf while they write, so that it doesn't interfere with their storytelling.

David Brin for example said about his books that going faster than light violates physics, so he made a point of inventing *many* fantastical faster-than-c technologies for his books.

"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" or some such.