How to pronounce “hieroglyph”(noun) in English

Hieroglyph is very much just starting out, and we frame the book and this project is an open invitation.

Hieroglyph isn't just a book; it's a project.

And Hieroglyph is about trying to create a safe place for everybody to do that together.

But Hieroglyph's goal is not so much to predict the future as to inspire.

And another precursor to Hieroglyph is the design fiction movement with which Bruce Sterling is associated.

to deciphering the hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt.

We want you to participate in the Hieroglyph community and imagine better futures.

So on the inside, Hieroglyph is about these collaborations.

So on the outside, Hieroglyph is something we're describing as, "Big ideas.

So we have a number of new projects kicking around in Hieroglyph.

And so if you look at the ancient hieroglyphs, as the evolved into script, you started seeing some symbol for

That's Project Hieroglyph.

Today I'm going to tell you a little bit about Project Hieroglyph.

It's sort of the first idea we wanted to talk about with Hieroglyph because it's an example of the kind of thing

Cynics versus Pollyannas-- which comes up a lot when we talk about the concept of Hieroglyph, by the way.

Now that last pair is the one that's most important to Hieroglyph A lot of them bear, in one way or another, on the specific stories

But where we really live with Hieroglyph is in the gap between what is and what could be.

Our future is full of possibilities, and Hieroglyph invites you to explore them.

In the Gernsback tradition-- in the Gernsbackian tradition, Hieroglyph is a visionary book.

So my idea for the book, for Hieroglyph, came out of the book that I published last year, "Scatter, Adapt, and Remember," which is pretty optimistic

last night-- it also got a different title, which is "Why Hieroglyph Is A Verb."

There are precursors to Hieroglyph

And I'm in the Hieroglyph anthology, and I'm faking because I'm not making any constructive suggestions about the future.

where they said, gosh, this hieroglyph, this cuneiform script, it sounds like x, or part of it sounds like x.

And not all of them were meant as funny, but they ran throughout the hieroglyphs, and the ancient Egyptians were big time punsters on many levels.

So the Center for Science and the Imagination is a platform for this kind of thinking, and we're the institutional hosts of Project Hieroglyph.

So for the next less than an hour, we will explore a few of these ideas circulating through Hieroglyph, and I hope engage all of you

Neal Stephenson is an author of historical and science fiction, a technology consultant, and the founder and principal provocateur behind Project Hieroglyph.

in the book, and there's a lot of stories where you could say, "Well, this is hard SF," or, "This belongs in Hieroglyph because of this,

And just by coincidence, "Natures 2," their second collection, also came out yesterday, in addition to Hieroglyph.

And I will go so far as to say, for me, Hieroglyph has become a verb.

And he said, oh, of course, and he started pointing out all of the puns in the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.