In Stephenson’s novel, the Primer looks like a hardcover book, but each of its “pages” is really a screen display that can show animations and text, and it responds to its user in real time via AI.

Neal Stephenson. Excess CO 2 makes the thin envelope of breathable gas around Earth too good at retaining heat, and it doesn't take more than a degree or two up or down to throw the entire system ...

President Donald Trump announced that he and British Prime Minister Kier Starmer have officially signed a trade agreement. The announcement was interrupted by Trump immediately dropping the papers of ...

Critics sometimes gripe that Neal Stephenson's sprawling, discursive, episodic, prop-up-your-laptop-sized novels may be smart, but they need focus and paring back. Too many of his novels have ...

Neal Stephenson’s new novel, “Termination Shock,” focuses on climate change. (Mercatus Center at GMU) This whole metaverse thing hasn’t turned out exactly the way Seattle novelist Neal ...

Neal Stephenson is amazing at beginnings and not so hot at endings, and his new novel, "Seveneves," has a marvelous opening sentence: "The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason." ...

Neal Stephenson invented the metaverse. At least from an imagination standpoint. Though other science fiction writers had similar ideas—and the pioneers of VR were already building artificial ...

Neal Stephenson has unveiled the plans of his Lamina1 blockchain company for an open metaverse in partnership with the Avalanche chain. Now as breathless as that sounds, it doesn’t mean ...

Science-fiction author Neal Stephenson speaks at a Town Hall event in 2018. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Microsoft and Facebook’s parent company, Meta, have their own visions for a virtual ...

Neal Stephenson: The idea came to me after we had a kid and got this mobile that was designed to suspend over the crib. It had very primitive, simple shapes on it because, ...

Like much of the world, Neal Stephenson doesn’t give a damn about Meta’s Metaverse. “My book will outlast Zuckerberg’s metaverse,” he tells me over video conference to talk about Lamina1 ...

Recent AI advances in voice tech, wearables and education echo the sci-fi world of The Diamond Age, raising hopes and concerns for the future.