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Stephenson is pretty tech savvy. I can't picture flim-flam merchants dazzling him with the concept of hyper text.

• drinian 16y ago
  More to the point, The Diamond Age basically describes an intelligent hypertext book.
  • sophacles 16y ago
    Even more to the point: Cryptonimicon is about how the freaking internet works. (Ok not really, but it is a major sub plot)