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 t

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.