The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

by Neal Stephenson

Decades into our future, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful Neo-Victorians. He's made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called a young lady's illustrated primer, designed to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself. Unfortunately, for Hackworth, he loses his smuggled copy to a gang of street urchins in a mugging. One of the young thugs presents the primer to his little sister, Nell and suddenly her life - and perhaps the whole future of humanity - is about to be decoded and reprogrammed... vividly imagined, stunningly prophetic, and epic in scope, The Diamond Age is a major novel from one of the most visionary writers of our time.

• ISBN10: 0670864145
• ISBN13: 9780670864140
• Publish Date: 7 September 1995
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Out of Print: 12 September 1996
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint: Viking
• Format: Paperback (UK Trade)
• Pages: 464
• Language: English

Reviews

[remo]

Ahora que se acercan de verdad las impresoras 3D a los hogares, nada más a propósito que este libro, situado en el Shanghai del futuro. Una niña recibe un libro electrónico que no era para ella. El libro es, en cierto modo, una guía de la vida. El inventor del libro electrónico ha hecho además algo de lo que se arrepentirá. El mundo está dominado por la nanotecnología, al estilo de las predicciones de Eric Drexler. Una interesante lectura que además aborda las castas y sus interacciones en un futuro próximo. Muy interesante.