people have actually looked at the high levels of sexual intermixing that occurs at the olympics. we used to have to have wars for that… now we have the olympics for sex and we just have the wars for the lube
By banishing computers from their lives, Erasmus’s reclusive colleagues are able to nourish what he calls “attention surplus disorder,” the ability to focus on and think about one thing for a long time. Erasmus’s order passes its trains of thought from generation to generation — a Church of the Long Now.
By contrast, the video and telecom-addled civilization that bustles outside their walls is full of shallow and incorrect knowledge. People who’ve never taken time to study anything feel they know everything.
Neal Stephenson’s new novel makes me want to kill the Internet
Ok, so right now I’m about to finish re-reading Baroque Cycle, then I’ll read the newly aquired Cryptonomicon, and after that is done I’m purchacing Anathem.