This "Word" - one man's word - is about the art (and cunning) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that this one man - Neal Stephenson - is a famous writer, pragmatist, visionary, “geeky” philosopher and author of the most famous works of literature (Avalanche, Cryptonomicon, etc.) - this word is worth hearing. This is Stevenson's well-reasoned study with a slightly bombastic tone - a thoughtful, funny treatise on cyberculture past and present, operating system tyranny, the Internet revolution, Disney, not to mention the meaning of existence.