Join Neal Stephenson and Robin Ince on the Climate Crisis and the Future of Humanity

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He coined the word 'metaverse' at the dawn of the digital age. Now the legendary speculative novelist turns his attention to the climate crisis.

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** He coined the word ‘Metaverse’, advised Jeff Bezos’s spaceflight company Blue Origin, and imagined the birth of cryptocurrency back in 1999. Now the legendary speculative fiction author turns his attention to the climate crisis.
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‘Sometimes when you’re reading Neal Stephenson, he doesn’t just seem like one of the best novelists writing in English right now; he seems like the only one.’ – TIME magazine

Many speculative novelists attempt to predict the future; few inspire an entire generation of entrepreneurs and scientists to turn their vision into a reality.

When Neal Stephenson wrote his seminal masterpiece Snow Crash in 1991 the digital age had barely begun, but soon its vision of a persistent online world where anything is possible became a Silicon Valley manifesto.

With fans including Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, and Peter Thiel, no living fiction author has more influence among the elite technologists shaping our world. His ideas inspired Google Earth, Second Life and the Xbox, and Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook after Stephenson’s concept of the Metaverse, dedicating his company to the mission of creating a future inspired by Stephenson’s speculative vision.

Now this legendary author and thinker turns his attention to the climate crisis. His sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics.

One man has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as “elemental.” But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences for the planet and all of humanity should it be applied?

In conversation with comedian and broadcaster Robin Ince, Neal will sound a clarion alarm, ponder potential climate solutions and dire risks, and share his insights into the future of life on earth.
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Neal Stephenson is the author of Reamde, Anathem; the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World); Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Zodiac and the iconic Snow Crash, named one of Time magazine’s top one hundred all-time best English-language novels. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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Robin Ince is the co-presenter of Radio 4’s multiple award winning The Infinite Monkey Cage. He spent 2019 appearing across the world in the Universal tour with Brian Cox – travelling from LA to Oslo, Wellington to Aberdeen and ending up in Reykjavik after shows at the 02 and Wembley Arena. Robin co-wrote How to Build a Universe (part 1) with Brian Cox and his most recent book is I’m a Joke and So Are You, a book about why we become who we become and how we deal with it

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