My first Stephenson novel, and likely his second best after The Diamond Age
If you’re going to only read on Stephenson book, make it this one. Especially relevant now in the age of LLMs.
The first one is great, skip the second unless you’re a superfan.
Agentic AI before it was cool.
Like a lot of highly-influential books, ends up feeling dated and overhyped because it’s innovative ideas have been copied and improved upon by others.