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 ...

Author Neal Stephenson famously invented the term “Metaverse” with the publication of Snow Crash in 1992 a year before the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Ten years ago, Neal Stephenson published an influential essay titled “Innovation Starvation,” in which he lamented the “general failure of our society to get big things done.” He laid some of the ...

The Victorian style of American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce can be heavy reading, but writing in 1877, Peirce somehow summed up the weirdly symmetrical right/left hostility toward free ...

Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash -- a science fiction novel from 1992 that has become widely known for coining the term, and even predicting, the "metaverse" -- announced last week that he is ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Author Neal Stephenson has been credited for inspiring today’s virtual ...

This whole metaverse thing hasn’t turned out exactly the way Seattle novelist Neal Stephenson thought it would when he came up with the idea 30 years ago. Back then, Stephenson was getting ready to ...

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 world ...

Lamina1 is a metaverse-focused, layer 1 blockchain, the brainchild of science-fiction author Neal Stephenson and blockchain expert Peter Vessenes. Lamina1 CEO Rebecca Barkin weighs in on the state of ...

Author Neal Stephenson famously invented the term “Metaverse” with the publication of Snow Crash in 1992 — a year before the World Wide Web or Doom even launched. But for crypto fans, his fictional ...

When you make a purchase through links on our site, we may earn a commission. Neal Stephenson's new novel, Termination Shock, focuses on looming climate disaster. But the influential science fiction ...