How to pronounce “cumulus” in English

Yeah. So they are "The Simpsons" clouds.They are cumulus clouds.Now, if you look out the window, there aren't really cumulus clouds.

But an essay is very different from a novel.And so for "Cumulus," really, my first steps on the creative front were, who is this book about?And it's really much more about the characters and what they're thinking about internally, where they're coming from, because you only experience

Because if I do, it just becomes scattered and it gets sort of unreadable.And so with "Cumulus" specifically, you're right.There are a host of things, like many of the ones you listed and many more, that simply aren't even discussed.

And so those are the things that I try to pay attention to in the creative process.So the week that "Cumulus" came out you got a phone call from William Gibson?

of sunlight and you know it's not coincidental that those uh that sort of appearance you have in all those burckor the Strat cumulus or does it mean more of the higher clouds like the cus the whispy ones and whether that which

So it's very good, because these warnings are issued by all the national met services.That occurs in these clouds-- cumulus-- cumulonimbus.

And I think that that is really relevant for anybody doing venture investing, because those are the opportunities you're trying to seek out.So without giving too much away in "Cumulus," some of those ideas are actually explored, right?You have this notion of fleet, autonomous vehicle service.

massive infrastructure around that, and then others who are seeing declining power in the state and increasing power in private corporations.I know the direction you went in "Cumulus." is that consistent with where you see things heading?Where is the balance between state and private power with technology as the accelerant?

And so those are the things that I try to pay attention to in the creative process.And the same is true for "Cumulus," on different aspects of the story where I wanted to make sure I was getting things

And so those are the things that I try to pay attention to in the creative process.So what ended up happening was "Cumulus" came out on a Thursday.

feel like a three dimensional thing rather than a two dimensional thing umso clumpy clouds L clouds cumulus and Stratus and then the other sort of maintype is the cus clouds I I was going to ask you what those were the already um don't see quite so many

some of this type Str accumulus so this is another one of the main types of clouds sometimes when uh you can jointhe terms together so Stratus and cumulus join together make Strat cumulus it's a layer of clumpy cloud and that'skind of partly how the system works Alto clumps at a higher level there's a mid-level cloud Alto is the most boring

doesn't really produce rain doesn't really do anything it sort of hangs around like a kind of unwanted guest ata party or something uh cumulus High little clumps of cloud um so high upthat they look almost like grains of salt or something like that cast or confetti cast across the sky um for some

And this is Eliot Peper.Maybe we can start with just a brief description of "Cumulus" and what it is, when it came out, and why you wrote it.Sure. "Cumulus" is my fourth novel.

Maybe we can start with just a brief description of "Cumulus" and what it is, when it came out, and why you wrote it.Sure. "Cumulus" is my fourth novel.It's a standalone story.

So I always think about it more as, how can you think differently about the present.So some of the things that went into "Cumulus" were that often, when we look at the internet, we think about the individual components of it.So here we might be thinking about Google and YouTube or Spotify or now Microsoft LinkedIn or whatever you want to talk about.

I'm happy to pass the mic or repeat.Hi. So "Cumulus" maps a bunch of technologies from today out, as you said, a couple decades.But conspicuously absent are a bunch of technologies that we find promising today but aren't there-- virtual reality, embedded computing,

deliberately. Why not do this deliberately? And he, along with an engineer, a quite brilliant engineer in Scotland, came up with these idea for these boats that use, that actually spraysalt water up into these areas where these marine strata cumulus clouds can be brightened and use the actual salt crystals in the salt water as condensation nuclei. And they'rea lot of modeling has shown that this can be very, very, have a very, very powerful impact on cooling off the planet in a similar way, although not quite as globally, as particles.

after it's waiting for you cumul Nimbus exactly right it's the storm cloud umand this is uh it's actually related to the cumulus cloud at the beginning the fluffy fair weather one but it'senormous it's grown out of that and when the the environment is unstable unstable

So if we assume that software does eat the world, that's going to have a lot of implications, and that's really what the story explores.One of the interesting implications of the themes you explore particularly in "Cumulus" is the degree to which most of the poweris held by corporations.

Can you comment on that absence both as a science fiction writer as well as an investor?How do feel about those technologies growing from here until the time of "Cumulus"?Yeah, that's a really good question.

We're here today at Google to talk with Elliot Peper about his new book, "Cumulus." My name is David Allison.I'm a product lead on a product here at Google.

of sunlight and you know it's not coincidental that those uh that sort of appearance you have in all those burckCloud that's not completely clear and nor do we know does that mean more of the lower clouds the cumulus clouds say

They are cumulus clouds.Now, if you look out the window, there aren't really cumulus clouds.They are stratus clouds.

And I swear there was a McDonald's there.And it wasn't. But a more interesting hallucination story was we were nine days into a race, four of us, and in the sky were these wonderful cumulus clouds.And we all saw the same Disney figures.