![]() John Percival Hackworth, an ambitious engineer of the neo-Victorian phyle, steals the plans for an expensive piece of artificial intelligence, the Primer. Rebel groups are working underground to create the Seed, a native, alternate form of nanotechnology. New Atlantis’s neo-Victorians are one of the most powerful phyles due to their control of nanotechnology delivered by the Feed, a centralized system that delivers subsistence-level food and goods to the have-nots (thetes) and a high standard of living to elites. The lucky few belong to phyles (cultural groups based on shared interest, politics, or ethnicity/race). Shanghai is now carved into municipalities and groups that arose when most nations collapsed in the wake of the nanotechnology economy and the rise of a secure, anonymous network that hid taxable income. ![]() The Diamond Age takes place in Shanghai and off the Eastern coast of China. ![]() Content Warning: The source novel includes sexual abuse and violence, misogynistic slurs as characterization, and physical violence. ![]()
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