| Subject: Chat with Andrew Stein |
| From: Andrew Stein <steinlink@gmail.com> |
1:02 AM Andrew: hey
me: oh hai
Andrew: have you read the difference engine?
1:03 AM its a william gibson steampunk
1:19 AM me: sorry, chrome crashed
what were you saying, yo?
Andrew: the difference engine
me: by Gibson?
Andrew: yes
1:20 AM me: you need to read the Cyptonomicon
by Stephenson
I'm about to try to recruit him by sending a message through Barry Eisler
the guy is a visionary
1:23 AM Andrew: yep, ill bet this is awesom
me: it really is great, I'm only half way through but I can guarantee you'll find it worthwhile
also
1:24 AM another book called The Victorian Internet
it's like the Difference Engine except non-fiction
1:25 AM sort of an examination of the communications network of the 19th century and how operators were already engaging in internet-esque emergent behavior by way of morse code networks, etc.
I haven't read it yet but seems interesting