![]() ![]() ![]() That, simply, is the basis for the world depicted in ANATHEM. I embodied those musings into my back-of-napkin sketch for Danny, which depicted a system of concentric walls surrounding the clock tower and enclosing cloistered communities with progressively deeper separation from current events. What if I only read the newspaper once a year? Once a decade? Once a century? I'd know a lot less about current events but I'd have plenty of spare bandwidth to think about other things. Anatema (en el inglés original, Anathem) es una novela del escritor estadounidense Neal Stephenson, encuadrada dentro del género de ciencia ficción (aunque el propio Stephenson prefiere el término 'ficción especulativa'), 1 Al igual que en sus trabajos de ficción anteriores, Stephenson intercala la acción de la novela con extensas discusiones. I got to thinking about the amount of time and energy I spend each day keeping up on current events that I know I am going to forget in 24 hours. At the time, many newspapers and magazines had been publishing end-of-decade, end-of-century, and even end-of-millennium news summaries in addition to the end-of-year ones that come out every December. ![]() Major themes include the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the philosophical debate between Platonic realism and nominalism. These were never intended as serious design proposals-it was more of an exercise to show how different people thought about the idea. Anathem is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 2008. In 1999, Danny Hillis asked me and several other people to contribute back-of-napkin sketches depicting our conceptions of the Clock of the Long Now. ![]()
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