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by spenczar5 1690 days ago
What an odd interview. I got the sense that the interviewer was really looking for Stephenson to lash out with some juicy rant about how awful Facebook is, but he is so mild about the whole thing.
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I think if you saw my full questions (had to edit for brevity) you would have gotten a different sense. I really was curious to know what he thought, given no one else had talked to him, which I found strange, but glad I did!
Why did you need to edit an amazing writer for brevity? Can you make the original interview available somewhere? It would be interesting
no I edited my questions, not his answers at all. made that clear in the piece. sure, i'll see where I can post it somehow
Ah, sorry, then it’s all fine, I wasn’t attentive enough :)
Yeah, it was like a shaggy dog interview.

Here come the punchline!

...

"the book has been out for 30 years and anyone can spin ideas out of it."

It was a plug for the new Stephenson book.