people never talk about the technogimmick in The Diamond Age<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Diamond Age, like all Neal Stephenson novels, is about revolutionary shifts in the means of production of something \u2013 in this case the transition from \u201cThe Feed\u201d, a futuristic centralised hub-and-spoke nanoassembly infrastructure to a different archeofuturistic mode \u201cThe Seed\u201d where everything is grown by Vegetables that have been Invented by a Society, to produce commodities<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the implication is that this solves the alienation problem which the various polities of the world, all more or less self-consciously Trad as Fuarq, have been butting their heads against throughout the novel, because it pleases quite hardcore anarcho-commies very much to be alienated from production of commodities when it is performed in mysterious ways by a vegetable in the field next to your cottage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
people never talk about the technogimmick in The Diamond Age The Diamond Age, like all Neal Stephenson novels, is about revolutionary shifts in the means of production of something \u2013 in this case the transition from \u201cThe Feed\u201d, a futuristic … Continue reading