The Diamond Age- - - - The thing that stays with me about The Diamond Age is that the future society had all manner of nanotechnology, could make self-assembling diamond cities, et cetera, but a plot point required that they could not do convincing voice synthesis by computer. Thus I will always mentally associate it with Starman Jones, a Heinlein novel in which starships jump across the universe faster than light, but the humans on the bridge need to convert decimal numbers to binary by looking up the conversion in a book. |