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Am I gonna' be that guy? sigh I guess I am. Hiro doesn't use a skateboard you're thinking of "YT" the courier. Hiro uses a high-performance pizza-delivery-spe
by calmbonsai 2y ago
Am I gonna' be that guy? sigh I guess I am.
Hiro doesn't use a skateboard you're thinking of "YT" the courier.
Hiro uses a high-performance pizza-delivery-specific car early on and then later a motorcycle that has wheels that aren't even continuous discs, but made up of many individually coordinated linear actuators with grip-pads on the end.
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- arcwhite 2y agoYT's skateboard introduces the telescopic contact smartwheels pretty early on as a Courier essential. I don't recall Hiro's motorcycle being much a part of the story, it might also have had the smartwheels but isn't discussed until later...
- calmbonsai 2y agoYep. His motorcycle is introduced in great detail and then afterwards Stephenson deliberately trolls us with "...after that, it's just a chase scene" and it's never mentioned again. ;)
- arrobbiato 2y agoAnd then YT makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in Stephenson's follow-up book, "The Diamond Age."
- calmbonsai 2y agoWoah! I'll have to re-read that.