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Interview with SF writer Neal Stephenson on climate change and our future...
Many of our "future thinker" SF writers have foreseen the future better with amazing accuracy.
For example...
* Author C. Clarke conceived of orbital satellites before Sputnik.
* Robert A. Heinlein wrote of speaking computers back in the late 50's.
* Neal Stephenson (who coined "Metaverse" back in 1992) wrote of a transnational digital currency when we were still using dialup modems and cell phones the size of a brick.
His new novel, "Termination Shock," out Nov. 16, focuses on the looming issue of our age -- human-generated climate change, projecting a near future of extreme weather and social chaos. Against this setting, a maverick oilman decides to take matters into his own hands and builds the world's biggest gun to shoot canisters of sulfur dioxide into the air, echoing the effects of a volcanic eruption and temporarily cooling parts of the globe. Geopolitics, social media and Dutch royalty all play a part.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/11/14/neal-stephenson-on-termination-shock-geoengineering-metaverse-.html
