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Born on
Halloween,
1959 in Fort Meade, Maryland--home of the National Security Agency--Neal
Town Stephenson comes from a long line of what he calls "propeller heads."
His father is a professor of
electrical
engineering whose father was a physics professor while his mother worked
in a biochemistry lab and her father was a biochemistry professor. He has
written for
_Wired_
and is one of three authors ever to write a fiction piece for _Time_ magazine.
Stephenson
is one of six visiting fellows at Ernst & Young's Center for Business
Innovation in Cambridge, Massachusetts he has an almost prophetic vision
of the future and a cult following among high-tech thinkers.
MIT
Media lab Professor Michael Hawley says, "what
Arthur
C. Clarke was to a previous generation, Neal Stephenson is to ours.
Neal is the kind of genius who puts one jarring idea on every page." Growing
up in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and Ames, Iowa, Stephenson decided he
never wanted to work in an occupation that forced him to wear hard shoes.
In this vein, he began college as physics major at Boston University Stephenson
was lured to study geography because that department had better computers.
A capable programmer and acclaimed writer, he finds it hard to work unless
he's listening to music on headphones. Since
1984, he has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and has made a living
out of writing novels and the occasional magazine article. Currently he
makes his home in the Seattle area with his family.
604
release
_Groovology
Of The Metaverse_ by Insectoid on Weird Music Society (1998)
Liner Notes:
INSECTIVOROUS ECTOMORPHISM OF THE MICRO MACRO
TRANCE
TWEAK AGE.
ETHNOBOTANICAL BEATS CYBORGANIC
CICADIAN
RHYTHMS INTERGALACTIC
GAIAN
GROOVES. A
PROMETHEAN
QUEST TO LIBERATE MEANING FROM THE
IMPRISONMENT
OF IGNORANCE. THE FUTURE IS THE PRESENT LIBERATED FROM THE PAST.
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ONTOLOGICAL ORGANARCHY OF EARTH MIND CREATIONISTS. UNITED SPACE COLLECTIVES WHICH SPIRITUALISE COMMUNAL SHARED cONSCIOUSNESS. PSYCHONAVIGATIONAL NEWSICAL NUANCES OF AN AQUARIAN AGE EQUITEK.
MENTASMIC MULTI
DIMENSIONAL
PORTALS OF NUMINOUS NEWSIC TRANSMOGRIFIED THRU THE
DREAM
STATE LOGIC OF CHIROS, TEMENOS,
CHAKRIC
CYBERDELICA. TWEAKERS OF WHOLISTIC
HALLUCINOGENIC
BEATFREAKERY USING THE RHYTHMYSTEC HIP-GNOSIS OF THE
DIGITAL
OCCULT. EAR-RATIONAL ANTIPODEAN TEKNOSIS NEUROTRANSMITTING PYROTECHNICAL
PSYCHISM
FOR RITUAL CATHARSIS. POT HEAD FLIPPING PIXIES IN
TEA
POT TAXIS, SONIC SHANKARS, MYSTICAL MANIACS, TRIBEDELIC NOMADS, HALE BOPPERS,
ASTRAL-
ALIENS,
TRANSNEPTUNIAN ESCAPOLOGISTS, LUNAR CRITTER
QUARK
FARKERS, ANARCHITEQNOFERALS AND TECHNOSAUREANS OF THE TOTEMIC, MELD
INTO THE ANIMA MUNDI OF THE UNIVERSAL MIND. AN EXOTIC AYURVEDIC ELIXIR
OF GROOVOLOGY CHANNELLED BY A SYNERGISTIC CONGREGATION OF CREATIVE, TRANSPERSONAL,
ALCHEMISTS.
CYBER
SHAMANIC,
PSYCHOTROPIC
SORCERY
CATALYSING THE CAULDRON OF SEXAGESIMAL
SILICON
SURF INTO HOMEOPATHIC
HARMONICS
FOR THE T H C TRANS-
ZEN-
DANCE
HEATHEN CULT. META-MUTATING GLOBAL
INFORMATIONAL
BEINGS MORPHING AN ANCIENT FUTURISM, REFLECTING THE
EVOLUTION
OF DIGITAL,
DOOFADELIC,
DANCE
DHARMA. AYANAMSA SHUNYATA
SATORI.
A
PHANTASMAGORIA
WHIRLY GIG SAMADHI PROPELLED THRU PORTALS OF
TIME
AND SPACE, METABOLISING BODY-GROOVE-GESTALT.
A DIGIDELIC AQUARIANA WHERE THE
YANTRIC
FUSES
WITH AN EVOLVING ECOLOGY OF INTUITIVE CIRCUITRY CREATING AN AURAL
ORACLE
ABSTRACTASIA OF SACRED SONIC GEOMETRY.
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EXISTENTIAL, EXPERIENTIAL, ELECKTRICKERY AWAKENING
THE
KUNDALINI
RAINBOW
SERPENT. RECONNECTION WITH A LOST EDENIC UNITY. COSMIC ORGASMIC BLISS
STATES OF THE EJACULATORY
PANGALACTICSPERMIA.
CLITORIAL CLAIRSENTIENCE OF THE HEINOUS GROOVE GLAND GROUP MIND. ASTRAL
ASCENSION GLIDING ON GALACTIC GATED
WAVELENGTHS.
PARADISIACAL MYTHOS COSMOLOGIES. A
RETURN
TO PRIMORDIAL INSTINCTUALITY THRU EXALTED STATE FREQUENCY FRENZIES ON AEONIC
SOMNIFIC
FLUX.
THE
MERCURIAL
MAGIC
OF TRIBEDELIC TRANCE TEKNO COMMUNION,
HYPERSPATIALLY
DISSOLVES
BOUNDARIES, AS IT TAPS INTO THE
INFINITE
OBLIVION OF THE UNIVERSAL WEB,
WITH LOVE & ELECTRONS...
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"The difference between ignorant and
educated
people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do
with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid
and intelligent people--and this is true whether or not they are educated --
is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by
ambiguous or even contradictory situations--in fact, they expect them and are
apt to be suspicious when things seem overly straightforward."
[...]
"'Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?'
'Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded. They are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.'"
-- Neal Stephenson, _The Diamond Age_ (1995)
- Neal Stephenson