The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (D.O.D.O. #1)

by Neal Stephenson

“You have an agreeably uninteresting existence. Let’s see if we can change that.”

Great Exhibition at the newly constructed, magnificent Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London.

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This is like asking why doesn’t a blind person know what blue smells like.

“I’d be in Virginia,” she agreed briskly. “Where the religion is mercantilism. It is a marginally preferable religion, although the Americans suffer more under it than they do under Christianity.

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“Whoever loved who loved not at first sight?”

The goal of this mission is to monetize the skill set we already have on deck in the form of the Asset and the ODEC. MS: Yes, but only after we have monetized the skill set by gathering low-hanging fruit. Blue Team’s road map is to utilize the transport modalities available to us due to the Asset and the ODEC, to incept a diachronic network and exploit resulting network effects that will enable DODO to scale. LH: That level of strategic vision is above your pay grade, Dr. Stokes.

Jacob Fugger

in that tone that says: he has made up his mind about it, and therefore any new information or suggestion has the weight of mist.

When you just wing it, you are aware of the risk and the uncertainty, and inclined to be more cautious. When you have a high-tech tool giving you an illusion of omniscience, I am concerned that it will lead to greater risk-taking.

Jacques Cardigan

Meanwhile there are hundreds of thousands of citizens of Constantinople sitting on the walls of the city, watching this from across the Golden Horn like it’s reality TV. Most of them don’t actually care who wins because they understand it’s just about who sits on the throne, they know the Crusaders aren’t here to try to actually harm the city itself. All the potential emperors are assholes, and they’re all related to each other, it hardly matters which one wins. So the citizens are literally picnicking and placing bets on who wins the day.