The Diamond Age [AGE.D]

<br><br>The Diamond Age Is focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. Some main motifs include: education, social class, ethnicity, and the nature of artificial intelligence.<br><br>MAJOR THEMES: <br>The importance of cultural association over racial affiliation.<br>The importance of personal connection between educator and child.<br>The importance of education over biological ancestry and of experiencing genuine adversity/life-experience over education.<br><br>Is this devotion to the <a href="showinfo:2//1000180">Caldari State</a> akin to Nell's love for <a href="showinfo:1377//359148885">Miranda Reactor</a>, an expression of longing among the Caldari girls for a conscious entity in a virtual world which for them was otherwise populated only with pseudo-intelligent agents?<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>