{"id":158552,"date":"2023-02-20T12:25:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T18:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/who-is-enoch-root"},"modified":"2023-02-20T12:25:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T18:25:49","slug":"who-is-enoch-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/who-is-enoch-root","title":{"rendered":"Who is Enoch Root?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/who-is-enoch-root3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neal_Stephenson\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Neal Stephenson<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em class=\"\">Fall; or, Dodge in Hell<\/em><\/a>\u201d (2019) is a festival of ideas centered on mind uploading and simulated realities.<\/p>\n<p>After the three masterpieces \u201c<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snow_Crash\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em class=\"\">Snow Crash<\/em><\/a><em class=\"\">\u201d <\/em>(1992), \u201c<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Diamond_Age\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em class=\"\">The Diamond Age<\/em><\/a><em class=\"\">\u201d <\/em>(1995), and \u201c<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cryptonomicon\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em class=\"\">Cryptonomicon<\/em><\/a><em class=\"\">\u201d<\/em> (1999), this is the novel of Stephenson that I have enjoyed more.<\/p>\n<p>Long story short, tech entrepreneur Richard \u201cDodge\u201d Forthrast, previously featured in \u201c<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reamde\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em class=\"\">Reamde<\/em><\/a><em class=\"\">\u201d<\/em> (2011), becomes the first human <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mind_uploading\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">upload<\/a>. Alone and initially selfless in his mindspace, which sits on a shapeless and chaotic bedrock of simulated reality, Dodge gradually recreates a \u201cBitworld\u201d to live in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neal Stephenson\u2019s \u201cFall; or, Dodge in Hell\u201d (2019) is a festival of ideas centered on mind uploading and simulated realities. After the three masterpieces \u201cSnow Crash\u201d (1992), \u201cThe Diamond Age\u201d (1995), and \u201cCryptonomicon\u201d (1999), this is the novel of Stephenson that I have enjoyed more. Long story short, tech entrepreneur Richard \u201cDodge\u201d Forthrast, previously featured [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}