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The Mongoliad App: Neal Stephenson's Novel of the Future?

• aditya 16y ago
  Those with iPads... are there other examples of apps with immersive media like this that you've discovered? I'm extremely curious whether the iPad/tablet form factor is going to enable a completely new medium or if it will (like the kindle) just translate an old medium with some bells and whistles?
• jamesbritt 16y ago
  ... possibly even more of a transformation than paper-based magazine publishers are attempting as they rejig their content models towards the iPad. Words like "para-narrative," "nontextual," and "extra-narrative" certainly suggest this. I hope it's a little more thought-out and realized than the last hypertext revolution. Rather than try to tell everyone how cool and game-changing this is supposed to be, they should just do what they're going to do and let people find out (or not) for themselves.
  • frossie 16y ago
    Dude, if it's 1/10th as mindblowing as plain-text Anathem, I am first in line to buy this thing. The downside is that even if it is transformative, that only tells us one thing: that Neal Stephenson can do this. It certainly doesn't tell us the average magazine publisher can carry it off.
• araneae 16y ago
  Man, so many of his tech imaginings are getting implemented. And by so many, I mean two. Still, it's pretty impressive. (The first being the virtual world in Snow Crash, from which Second Life was based.)