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So from all this talk of Mr. Stephenson, I was tempted to contact him via the interwebs, and ask his opinion of e-readers like the SONY and the Illiad. To my mind, both of these devices come close to the "primer" he described in _The Diamond Age_, and I have for some years wanted a motorcycle crash suit like the one described in _Snow Crash_. There was a youtube posting that showed a similarly exploding safety suit for a billboard worker, but I cannot find the link.
Sadly, according to the author's own website, he is none too interesting in corresponding with random sychophants. Ah well.
Even so, I wonder what he thinks of the Reader. He obviously hopes it is viable enough to make some more money from the venture.
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