Neal Stephenson Is Tired of Dystopias at Disrupt SF

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  • Опубліковано 14 січ 2025

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  • @jamesp4521
    @jamesp4521 7 років тому +35

    What a dead bland audience! When he said we all read Snow Crash right? I couldn't of contained a shout out if I was there! Snow Crash is one of my favourite books of all time!

    • @rikrob5172
      @rikrob5172 4 роки тому +1

      Same. I keep trying to get someone else into it. Just give 2 pages a go people. If you can handle and enjoy that, you'll dig the rest.

  • @aggressivecalm
    @aggressivecalm 7 років тому +8

    12:48 "Social impact, that's not so great..." Intentional understatement of the century, Neal Stephenson throws philanthropic shade. Big fan Neal

  • @yesmissjane
    @yesmissjane 8 років тому +18

    Wow. Neal Stephenson as dinner theatre. Talk about a dystopic future.

  • @lance9749
    @lance9749 8 років тому +24

    Don't worry Neal you have fans! If I were there I would have been yelling and screaming at the top of my lungs. Someday I hope to meet you. Anyhow, sorry the event was not that great but again you have huge fans. PS Can't wait 2017 they start filming Snow Crash!!! Then hopefully Diamond Age. You rock dude.

    • @GCNavigator
      @GCNavigator 6 років тому

      Lance Stone Diamond Age will never make it on screen if Hollywood has anything to say about it. The heart of the story is way too real and scary to the power elite.

  • @adammccurdy7481
    @adammccurdy7481 8 років тому +58

    A futurist visionary, speaking in front of a bunch of zombies on their computers/phones.

    • @bigfan1041
      @bigfan1041 8 років тому

      Yeah it´s definitely either/or.

  • @CivilianAdams
    @CivilianAdams 5 років тому +1

    Thank you for talking to us Stephen.

  • @sdrw7389
    @sdrw7389 8 років тому +11

    Stephenson is a genius

  • @adamsnow4884
    @adamsnow4884 7 років тому +12

    So awkward at the beginning...

  • @oghomelesskid
    @oghomelesskid 8 років тому +29

    Lol that intro is the best.

  • @monaanalisa2082
    @monaanalisa2082 8 років тому +3

    "Pleasant for the vast majority and gonna really suck for some folks"

  • @forevershampoo
    @forevershampoo 5 років тому +1

    I agree it would be advantageous to see how we could avoid a dystopia

  • @Noyb.265
    @Noyb.265 4 роки тому +2

    One thing: after the moon broke up in Seveneves, the first entered Earth's orbit as meteoroids. Once the pieces entered a planetary atmosphere, they are regarded as meteors, not meteorites. Only after colliding with the surface of a planet does the detritus of a meteor become a meteorite.

  • @lightspeedius
    @lightspeedius 3 роки тому

    I'm 4/5ths of the way through Anathem. It's so freaking good. Well paced for such deep content too.

  • @Jason-fv4rg
    @Jason-fv4rg 7 років тому +6

    Baselines, compulsively staring at their jeejaws. What a waste of Neal's time.

  • @jean-christophefrancois2087
    @jean-christophefrancois2087 2 роки тому

    I think we like dystopias because they present futures that would be easier to avoid than what we are facing. Or exaggerate the future we will have to face to the point it’s easier to dismiss as being strictly fiction.

  • @GCNavigator
    @GCNavigator 6 років тому

    Stephenson is a genius author and I appreciate the opportunity to listen to him. I wonder though, does he really think first person shooters are the most popular video games? And I wonder how any futurist can be ignorant of the Maunder Minimum? I also wonder if he really thinks nationalism is inferior to globalism?

  • @noraajagger4239
    @noraajagger4239 6 років тому +1

    18:45 look at his hands and match it with the people he is talking about

  • @chadchadwick6356
    @chadchadwick6356 7 років тому

    We are discounting the wisdom of our times.

  • @chadchadwick6356
    @chadchadwick6356 7 років тому

    The whole world that really matters is happening here and now.

  • @Langkowski
    @Langkowski 7 років тому +2

    But why are dystopian novels popular? I can think of a couple of reasons.

  • @aarondavid826
    @aarondavid826 3 роки тому

    He had me at "the moon blows up"

  • @TheKh65
    @TheKh65 2 роки тому +1

    Why are they so awkward?

  • @lisazoria2709
    @lisazoria2709 5 років тому +3

    Who tf uses kickstarter to write a book? Does the interviewer even know what books are?

  • @qwertyqart
    @qwertyqart 7 років тому +7

    you can tell one thing for sure, Stephenson isn't going to be on Trump's reading list. probably no one will be on Trump's reading list, Trump only reads Trump.

    • @BrianLancaster
      @BrianLancaster 7 років тому +2

      lol can't tell if Joestar is being ironic

    • @edbachelder3374
      @edbachelder3374 6 років тому +1

      Trump reads Fox news with his ears, period

    • @jaredfrost3548
      @jaredfrost3548 6 років тому

      I think Green Brain Seaside is joking. Trump doesn't read.

  • @kahn289
    @kahn289 3 роки тому +1

    What the hell is wrong with this audience? Why even go?

  • @gargleblasta
    @gargleblasta Рік тому

    17:15 so, you have this great scifi writer... but the interviewer just had to do a bit of whining about Trump. Sad.

  • @therasound
    @therasound 5 років тому

    WORST INTERVIEWER EVER and this venue was fucking terrifying....

  • @pumpuppthevolume
    @pumpuppthevolume 6 років тому

    Simpsons predicted Trump :P

  • @jaredfrost3548
    @jaredfrost3548 6 років тому +1

    Shameful audience.

  • @eymerichinquisitore9022
    @eymerichinquisitore9022 2 роки тому

    I'm just sorry that he believes the lie of climate change