Neal Stephenson Quote
There is an informational entity known as the metavirus, which causesinformation systems to infect themselves with customized viruses. This may bejust a basic principle of nature, like Darwinian selection, or it may be anactual piece of information that floats around the universe on comets and radiowaves -- I'm not sure. In any case, what it comes down to is this: Anyinformation system of sufficient complexity will inevitably become infected withviruses -- viruses generated from within itself.
Neal Stephenson
There is an informational entity known as the metavirus, which causesinformation systems to infect themselves with customized viruses. This may bejust a basic principle of nature, like Darwinian selection, or it may be anactual piece of information that floats around the universe on comets and radiowaves -- I'm not sure. In any case, what it comes down to is this: Anyinformation system of sufficient complexity will inevitably become infected withviruses -- viruses generated from within itself.
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About Neal Stephenson
Stephenson's work explores mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes nonfiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. He has written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. Frederick George"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury.
Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (founded by Jeff Bezos) developing a spacecraft and a space launch system, and also co-founded the Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He was Magic Leap's Chief Futurist from 2014 to 2020.