How to pronounce “stephenson” in English

Neal Stephenson, the science fiction writer who's going to be up here on stage in just a second, and the president of Arizona State University, a guy

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

Neal Stephenson is working on this thing, "Hieroglyphics," with Arizona State.

David Stephenson: Hm Hmm.

This is what Neal Stephenson does exceptionally well.

And Neal Stephenson when he decides he wants to is also great at it.

So our guests today are Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland, and they've written a book called

teaching device featured in Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age."

That was actually Neal Stephenson.

And the best thing about Neal Stephenson is we have a photograph of the two of us with Neil Armstrong.

And one of those doors was opened to Eric Stephenson, who's the publisher of Image Comics.

The Wired photo that you referred to-- is that the Neal Stephenson "Mother Earth Mother Board" article?

Stephenson's lectures worldwide on data liberation, writes great books and also articles and blog post on data and other issues including homeland security and environmental

Male Audience #2: Such things start being done David Stephenson: Right.

write a different set of data sets--data points than Neal Stephenson.

There's this idea from the author Neal Stephenson called "amistics" which is a term that he adopted from the Amish

There's this idea from the author Neal Stephenson called Amistics, which is a term that he adopted from the Amish

The term itself comes from dystopic science fiction coined by Neal Stephenson in 1992.

It's like one Neal Stephenson chapter.

Well, Neal Stephenson was probably a later one, but we go back to Isaac Asimov, Andre Norton--

And that was when we heard back, and Eric Stephenson said yes, she seems like a great fit.

I'd like to introduce Neal Stephenson and Keith Hjelmstad to talk about their collaboration on "The Tall Tower."

If you want that, go read "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson, which is 15 years old, but it's all there in California.

Announcer: Thanks for coming, I’m happy to introduce David Stephenson today.

But it was a terrible idea, and Brunel had his good friend but often friendly rival Robert Stephenson, son of George Stephenson, telling him so.

Yeah, so there I was, minding in my own business, and I get this call from Neal Stephenson asking about a 20-kilometer tower.

So, have you read Neil Stephenson's "Reamde?"

David is principle of Stephenson Strategies,

started popping up in all these kind of science fiction books by people like William Gibson, people like Bruce Sterling or Neal Stephenson because a lot