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	Diamond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Diamond is the hardest known naturally occurring material, scoring 10 on the relative Mohs scale of mineral hardness and having an absolute hardness value of between 167 and 231 gigapascals in various tests.
		Diamonds have also rarely been found in deposits left behind by glaciers (notably in Wisconsin and Indiana); however, in contrast to alluvial deposits, glacial deposits are not known to be of significant concentration and are therefore not viable commercial sources of diamond.
		Diamonds which are not cut to the specifications of Tolkowsky's round brilliant shape (or subsequent variations) are known as "fancy cuts." Popular fancy cuts include the baguette (from the French, meaning rod or loaf of bread), marquise, princess (square outline), heart, briolette (a form of the rose cut), and pear cuts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diamond (8636 words)

	The Diamond Age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a 1995 cyberpunk or postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson taking place in a world where nanotechnology is ubiquitous.
		The Diamond Age is most likely set in the same universe as Snow Crash, many years later, based on the assumption that Y.T., a major character in Snow Crash, reappears as the aged Miss Matheson, who drops oblique references to her past as a hard-edged skateboarder.
		It's not hard to see why they're dissatisfied, given that only the central plot of The Diamond Age is resolved while life goes on in the background (with the subplots unresolved) instead of everything grinding to a screeching halt at once (with "and then they lived happily ever after").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Diamond_Age (1284 words)

	Wired 11.09: The New Diamond Age
		We are in Antwerp, Belgium, in Weingarten's marbled and gilded living room on the edge of the city's gem district, the center of the diamond universe.
		Nearly 80 percent of the world's rough and polished diamonds move through the hands of Belgian gem traders like Weingarten, a dealer who wears the thick beard and fl suit of the Hasidim.
		Diamond microchips, on the other hand, could handle much higher temperatures, allowing them to run at speeds that would liquefy ordinary silicon.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html (1244 words)

	nanoTITAN - The Diamond Age
		"Diamond Age" is a nickname given to the age in human history that will become possible with the advent of advanced nanotechnology (often called molecular nanotechnology or MNT).
		Diamond has unusual strength and we are already beginning to exploit other carbon-based nanodevices such as nanotubes and fullerenes.
		So whether the diamond form of carbon structures becomes widely used or not, the "Diamond Age" remains a fitting name for such a sparkling future.
	nanotitan.com /nano/diamondAge.htm (249 words)

	The Diamond Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bestowing diamond ring on one’s intended is a time honored tradition, dating back to 1477 when Archduke Maximilian of Austria slipped one on the finger of Mary of Burgundy.
		Two diamonds of equal size and appearance may not necessarily be of equal value.
		Diamonds come in various shapes, with some of the most popular being round, oval, marquis, pear, heart and emerald.
	www.alphaimports.com /models/Diamonds.htm (752 words)

	Wired 11.09: The New Diamond Age
		Diamonds that are smaller than a fifth of a carat are almost never sent to labs, since the cost would eat up any profit made from them.
		Not surprisingly, the diamond industry is hostile to the idea, as the younger Linares discovered four years ago when he attended an industry conference in Prague.
		CVD diamond precipitates as nearly 100 percent pure diamond and therefore may not be discernible from naturals, no matter how advanced the detection equipment.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/11.09/diamond_pr.html (5139 words)

	Review - The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
		Diamond is not perfectly "steampunk" since its main focus is nanotechnology, but some of the dominant themes are idealized Victorian and these themes insinuate themselves in every facet of the work in a daring blend of emotional 19
		One of the astonishing capabilities of Stephenson as an author is to place his, what would have to be called anachronistic characters, into bizarre conceptions of technology and future dystopian circumstances yet, despite the handicap, making their humanity at once comfortable and dominant in this milieu.
		We open with petty criminal Bud and are immediately immersed in a world where the construction of microscopic machines have been perfected and have allowed for staggering advances in the melding of machine and human; not to mention surveillance, emotional manipulation, and outright brainwashing.
	www.inchoatus.com /Reviews/Diamond%20Age,%20The.htm (1288 words)

	The Diamond Age: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The hierarchic nature of control the Feed represents and an alternative technology known as the Seed mirror the cultural conflict between East and West that is depicted in the book.
		The Diamond Age is most likely set in the same universe as Snow Crash Snow Crash quick summary:
		(given that only the central plot of The Diamond Age is resolved while life goes on in the background (with the subplots unresolved) instead of everything grinding to a screeching halt at once (with "and then they lived happily ever after").
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_diamond_age.htm (3005 words)

	The Net Net: ReadMe
		The Diamond Age posits an intricately imagined nanotech future in which nations no longer exist: people gravitate to "phyles" of like-minded individuals, large disseminated groups which afford them protection, work and a more or less predetermined lifestyle.
		Possibly the richest and most influential phyle is the New Victorians, who are disciplined, wealthy and tend to design and control (although not to slavishly make use of) high technology.
		A highly placed engineer-artifex, John Percival Hackworth, is approached by the aged Equity Lord Alexander Chung-Sik Finkle-McGraw with the commission to invent a device that will educate his granddaughter beyond the complacency which he fears will be the Victorians' downfall.
	www.thenetnet.com /readme/diamond.html (674 words)

	Diamond semiconductor age beckons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although mechanically produced diamonds can be detected with infrared spectroscopy, the other process, chemical vapor deposition, "grows" diamonds that are suspected only because they're perfectly flawless, as rarely occurs in nature.
		Aside from upsetting the economics of the gem diamond trade, this shows promise for driving semiconductor manufacturing to a new level.
		Diamond is likely the best possible semiconductor due to its mechanical strength and high heat dissipation capacity.
	www.theinquirer.net /?article=11008 (261 words)

	The Dawn of Diamond Age
		Diamond is the miracle substance that excels all other materials in many extreme properties.
		Currently industrial diamonds are limited by size and geometry, so they are serving primarily in mechanical industry as superabrasives (e.g., for grinding wheels).
		But with the availability of large sized diamond films and complicated DLC coatings many functional applications of diamond are either commercially available or to be debut.
	www.eng.auburn.edu /department/ee/ADC-FCT2001/ADCFCTabstract/123.htm (101 words)

	Diamond Age
		Most of their children had reached the age when they were no longer naturally endearing to anyone save their own parents; the size when their energy was more a menace than a wonder; and the level of intelligence when what would have been called innocence in a smaller child was infuriating rudeness.
		The result was furious turbulence, an upswelling in the surface of the ocean that made some of the children scream, thinking it might rise up and snatch the airship out of the sky; and indeed a few drops pelted the ship's diamond belly, prompting the pilot to give her a little more altitude.
		The curt maneuver forced hearty laughter from all of the fathers in the ballroom, who were delighted by the illusion of danger and the impotence of Nature.
	members.cox.net /bksy/dage.html (11384 words)

	Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
		The civilization of The Diamond Age is comprised of a patchwork of voluntary tribal alliances, similar to those Stephenson earlier explored in Snow Crash.
		The Diamond Age is about the nature of society and role of education within it.
		The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer [Bantam Spectra, 1995] is a cataclysmic demonstration of his talents.
	www.strangewords.com /archive/stephenson.html (535 words)

	Neal Stephenson, the prophet of The Diamond Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After years of toil, your civilization can achieve a "Diamond Age" in which nanotechnology is one of the main atttributes (you are able to clean the environment and defuse all nuclear weapons).
		Author of the cyberpunk classic Snow Crash, the Hugo Award-winning The Diamond Age, and Zodiac: The Eco Thriller, Neal Stephenson has written for Wired and is one of three authors ever to write a fiction piece for Time magazine.
		Vividly imagined, stunningly prophetic, and epic in scope, The Diamond Age is a major novel from one of the most visionary writers of ourtime.
	www.anduin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Scifi/Neal/neal.htm (1296 words)

	Powell's Books - The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell.
		The Diamond Age should cement Stephenson's reputation as one of the brightest and wittiest young authors of American science fiction."
		Set in 21st century Shanghai, this is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0553380966-0 (363 words)

	Nanotechnology and the arrival of the Diamond Age
		Nanotechnology and the arrival of the Diamond Age
		If the placement of every atom takes only one single operation and all operations can be carried out with a frequency of 10^6 per second, then it will still take more than 10^19 seconds to build this object.
		Cells and tissues in the human body are built and maintained by molecular machinery, but sometimes that machinery proves inadequate: viruses multiply, cancer cells spread, or systems age or deteriorate.
	www.dse.nl /~hkl/e_nano1.htm (3199 words)

	Amazon.com: The Diamond Age : Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book): Books: Neal Stephenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson was one of the most insightful an original books I've read in a long time.
		On the Earth of the Diamond Age, mankind has developed and perfected the concept of nanotechnology.
		In the Diamond Age, Stephenson holds nothing back, and refuses to dumb down his book to make it an easy read.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553380966?v=glance (1980 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer - Neal Stephenson - Mass ...
		Diamond Age, a Hugo Award-winning romp into a future nanotechnological revolution, doesn't lend itself to concise description.
		Neal Stephenson's THE DIAMOND AGE is a breathtaking voyage into a future world dominated by molecular nanotechnology.
		Unlike THE DIAMOND AGE, it's set in the present.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0553573314 (2016 words)

	The Diamond Age
		The Diamond Age is set about fifty years from now in a nanotech future.
		Micromachines make everything and diamond assembled atom by atom by these machines is the universal construction material.
		The book falls into the hands of a little slum girl, and The Diamond Age follows her growth into a young woman as well as the cataclysms rending South China at the same time.
	www.nesfa.org /reviews/Olson/DiamondAge.html (466 words)

	canary diamonds - welcome to canary diamonds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Diamonds at wholesale prices direct to the public diamonds of all shapes, diamonds from 01 carats to over 20 carats, wholesale direct to you.
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		Diamonds of all colors can be found in nature. Over 300 natural colors have so far been identified, and are describe in the Natural Color Diamond Encyclopedia
	www.mrbdiamonds.com /canarydiamonds (2336 words)

	Salon.com Audio \| "The Diamond Age" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age," set decades in the future a stone's throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neo-Victorians.
		He's made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer." Commissioned by an eccentric duke for his grandchild and stolen for Hackworth's own daughter, the Primer exists to educate and raise a girl capable of thinking for herself.
		His quest and Nell's will ultimately lead them to another seeker whose fate is bound up with the Primer -- a woman who holds the key to a vast, subversive information network that is destined to decode and reprogram the future of humanity.
	archive.salon.com /audio/fiction/2001/10/02/stephenson_diamond/index (500 words)

	A New Diamond Age
		David Atlas forwarded me this article A New Diamond Age (it is 1M pdf file).
		This is the first public news about the newest of the grading technologies for diamonds.
		While I can't say a lot more right now, I will keep the Pricescope members informed on this company and what it hopes to accomplish as these things are made public.
	www.pricescope.com /diamonds/x9586.htm (423 words)

	Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Neal Stephenson's latest novel, The Diamond Age is an attempt to combine two recent SF sub-genres together.
		However, Stephenson offers no wink and nudge to show that his characters are in on the joke.
		The Diamond Age has more substance than Stephenson's SnowCrash, but it is not as enjoyable as that earlier novel.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/stephenson.html (445 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Diamond Age Envisions the next century as brilliantly as snow crash did the day after tomorrow."--Newsweek
		"Diamond Age establishes Neal Stephenson as a powerful voice for the cyber age....
		The Diamond Age should cement Stephenson's reputation as one of the brightest and wittiest young authors of American science fiction."--The San Diego Union-Tribune
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook16661.htm (1166 words)

	The Diamond Age
		Price is accurate as of the date/time indicated by the age* (hours before 05/10 09:26 UTC).
		It's a flaw of most of his works (his earlier ones escaped this, I presume, due to the discipline enforced by a good editor,) but is pretty much the only flaw to be found in this excellent tale of morals and manners and, oh yeah, science fiction of a nanotechnological bent.
		The heroes are flawed, the bad guys aren't beyond redemption: the characterization elevates The Diamond Age beyond the standard (science-fiction) novel by putting the human motivations first, and the clever plot and whiz-bang technology second.
	www.awardannals.com /detail/10010 (1425 words)

	Articles - The Diamond Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		´´The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady´s Illustrated Primer´´; is a 1995 cyberpunk or postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson taking place in a world where nanotechnology is ubiquitous.
		* Stephenson´s short story "The Great Simoleon Caper" which refers to both the Metaverse seen in ´´Snow Crash´´ and the First Distributed Republic seen in ´´The Diamond Age´´.
	www.zdiamond.net /articles/The_Diamond_Age (1165 words)

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