Mother Earth Mother Board
{{short description|Essay by Neal Stephenson}}
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"Mother Earth Mother Board" is an essay by Neal Stephenson that appeared in Wired Magazine in December 1996, on the subject of the history of undersea communication cables and a modern-day effort to lay the Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe. It was later reprinted in Some Remarks.
See also
References
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|first = Cory
|author-link = Cory Doctorow
|date = August 7, 2012
|title = Neal Stephenson's Some Remarks, a remarkable essay collection
|url = https://boingboing.net/2012/08/07/neal-stephensons-some-re.html
|access-date = November 22, 2021
|website = Boing Boing
|language = en-US
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120808161409/http://boingboing.net/2012/08/07/neal-stephensons-some-re.html
|archive-date = August 8, 2012
|url-status = live
}}
|last = Maly
|first = Tim
|title = "Why's this so good?" No. 21: Neal Stephenson's plot-free adventure story
|url = https://nieman.harvard.edu/stories/whys-this-so-good-no-21-neal-stephenson-mother-earth-mother-board-tim-maly/
|access-date = November 22, 2021
|website = Nieman Foundation
|date = November 22, 2011
|language = en-US
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150530181251/http://nieman.harvard.edu/stories/whys-this-so-good-no-21-neal-stephenson-mother-earth-mother-board-tim-maly/
|archive-date = May 30, 2015
|url-status = live
}}
|last = Stephenson
|first = Neal
|author-link = Neal Stephenson
|title = Mother Earth Mother Board
|website = Wired Magazine
|date = December 1, 1996
|url = https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
|access-date = May 19, 2021
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151107094324/https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
|archive-date = November 7, 2015
|url-status = live
|url-access = subscription
}}
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External links
The original article is locked behind the magazine's paywall, but a [https://web.archive.org/web/20210519192919/http://lpc1.clpccd.cc.ca.us/lpc/jgonder/studentresources/Wired%20MotherBoard%204.12/4.12_%20Mother%20Earth%20Mother%20Board.pdf PDF version is available].
Category:Essays by Neal Stephenson
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