A Conversation with Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson is the author of the best-selling Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World) as well as the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. Stephenson is an Ames High School graduate and has a degree from Boston University in geography and physics. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Part of the 2007 Emerging Technologies Conference.