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Title: This guy knows his tech
Review: What I really love about Neal Stephenson is that he is not merely enamored with technology; he understands it. William Gibson, for example, arguably invented the cyberpunk genre, but had never owned a computer at the time he wrote it (this is not to imply Stephenson is a cyberpunk writer, he isn't). Neal Stephenson, on the other hand, clearly comes across as a person with extensive personal experience with computer technology. I've been both a programmer and a network engineer, and I can't call this guy on anything. Not so with any other computer-technology-oriented writer I've read so far.Cryptonomicon is not a vision of the technological future, it is a combination of the history of the beginnings of computer technology and the implications of current computer technology. It's still delightfully geeky, however. I loved it. I hope you do, too.
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