![]() ![]() Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links.įollow us on Twitter and Instagram Follow Tyler on Twitter Follow Neal on Twitter Email Subscribe at our newsletter page to have the latest Conversations with Tyler news sent straight to your inbox. So what’s the implicit theology of a simulated world? Might we be living in one, and does it even matter? Stephenson joins Tyler to discuss the book and more, including the future of physical surveillance, how clothing will evolve, the kind of freedom you could expect on a Mars colony, whether today’s media fragmentation is trending us towards dystopia, why the Apollo moon landings were communism’s greatest triumph, whether we’re in a permanent secular innovation starvation, Leibniz as a philosopher, Dickens and Heinlein as writers, and what storytelling has to do with giving good driving directions. His latest novel, Fall or, Dodge in Hell, involves a more literal sort of brain-picking, exploring what might happen when digitized brains can find a second existence in a virtual afterlife. Though Stephenson insists he’s more often wrong than right, his technical sharpness has even led to a half-joking suggestion that he might be Satoshi Nakamoto, the shadowy creator of bitcoin. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Across more than a dozen books, he’s created vast story worlds driven by futuristic technologies that have both prophesied and even provoked real-world progress in crypto, social networks, and the creation of the web itself. Conversations with Tyler Mercatus Center at George Mason University Education Society & Culture 2.8k ratings Tyler Cowen engages today’s deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world, and everything in between. ![]() If you want to speculate on the development of tech, no one has a better brain to pick than Neal Stephenson. ![]()
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