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Neal Stephenson

The Loudest Thing You’ll Read All Day: Railgun Breaks Speed Record

Seriously, just sit back and bask in the huge, loud, awesome that is this sentence: “A gun the size of a bus has set a new world record, and fired its payload so fast it broke the speed of sound seven times over.”

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Neal Stephenson Launches Own Futuristic Startup: Uncrackable Internet Currency Far Behind?

It’s hard to say what, if any, effect Neal Stephenson‘s new start up will have on the future of communication, nanotechnology, or Nazi war gold, seeing as how it doesn’t really have anything to do with those things and its first project is more about the future of publishing and copyright.

From The New York Times:

The company [called Subutai], based in Seattle and San Francisco, has developed what it calls the PULP platform for creating digital novels. The core of the experience is still a text novel, but authors can add additional material like background articles, images, music, and video. There are also social features that allow readers to create their own profiles, earn badges for activity on the site or in the application, and interact with other readers.

Their aforementioned first project launches today, a serialized novel called The Mongoliad, co-written by Stephenson, Greg Bear, and other people.

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A Pocket Guide to Fictional Social Networks

Yesterday, we wrote about an entire social network dedicated to fictional personas, which made us think: what are some social networks that, while aimed at real human beings, are themselves totally made up to fill a void in pop culture?

Join us below for a Campbellian hero’s journey into the world of what TV writers, popular authors, and late-night comics think about when they think about social networking!

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