“The only person who might have envisioned a future as outlandish as our present is the Seattle-based author Neal Stephenson.”
That’s the interesting and notable view of British-American historian Niall Ferguson, expressed in his Time Machine column on Substack.
To back up his thesis, Ferguson offers a detailed argument revolving around Stephenson’s 1995 science fiction novel The Diamond Age.
Along with his earlier breakthrough cyberpunk (or post-cyberpunk) novel Snow Crash (1992), The Diamond Age put Stephenson on the map as a visionary writer to watch – and read.
