Neal Stephenson on Anathem: The genesis of the novel and its main ideas

Neal Stephenson discusses the origin of his prize-winning 2009 novel 'Anathem' and some of the key ideas behind it.

Neal Stephenson talks about the novel as a part of a panel discussion he took part in for the 02010 Long Finance symposium, held in the Guildhall, London, 20th September 2010.
The full hour-long discussion can be downloaded from the Gresham College website for free here:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=45&EventId=1155

Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website.

For more information about the Long Finance project, please visit their site:
http://www.zyen.com/long-finance.html

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