Neal Stephenson Quote

The world has actually been wired together by digital communications systems for a century and a half. Nothing that has happened during that time compares in its impact to the first exchange of messages between Queen Victoria and President Buchanan in 1858. That was so impressive that a mob of celebrants poured into the streets of New York and set fire to City Hall.


"Mother Earth Mother Board," cover story in Wired, 4.12 (1996)


The world has actually been wired together by digital communications systems for a century and a half. Nothing that has happened during that time...

The world has actually been wired together by digital communications systems for a century and a half. Nothing that has happened during that time...

The world has actually been wired together by digital communications systems for a century and a half. Nothing that has happened during that time...

The world has actually been wired together by digital communications systems for a century and a half. Nothing that has happened during that time...