Neal Stephenson Quote
There's one black-and-white who stands out because he's taller than the rest.The Street protocol states that your avatar can't be any taller than you are.This is to prevent people from walking around a mile high. Besides, if thisguy's using a pay terminal -- which he must be, to judge from the image quality-- it can't jazz up his avatar. It just shows him the way he is, except not aswell. Talking to a black-and-white on the Street is like talking to a personwho has his face stuck in a xerox machine, repeatedly pounding the copy button,while you stand by the output tray pulling the sheets out one at a time andlooking at them.
Neal Stephenson
There's one black-and-white who stands out because he's taller than the rest.The Street protocol states that your avatar can't be any taller than you are.This is to prevent people from walking around a mile high. Besides, if thisguy's using a pay terminal -- which he must be, to judge from the image quality-- it can't jazz up his avatar. It just shows him the way he is, except not aswell. Talking to a black-and-white on the Street is like talking to a personwho has his face stuck in a xerox machine, repeatedly pounding the copy button,while you stand by the output tray pulling the sheets out one at a time andlooking at them.
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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.