![]() ![]() ![]() “Lots of other science fiction media includes metaverse-like systems,” writes The Verge’s Adi Robertson, but “ Stephenson’s book remains one of the most common reference points for metaverse enthusiasts.” This holds especially true in Silicon Valley, where, as Vanity Fair‘s Joanna Robinson puts it, “a host of engineers, entrepreneurs, futurists, and assorted computer geeks (including Amazon C.E.O. Of the many inventions with which Stephenson furnished Snow Crash‘s then-futuristic 21st-century cyberpunk reality, few have captured as many techie imaginations as the “ metaverse,” an enormous virtual world inhabited by the avatars of its users. ![]() It did so, at least, among readers interested in the internet and its potential, which was much more of a niche subject 29 years ago. Originally published in 1992, that novel not only made the name of its author Neal Stephenson, it elevated him to the status of a technological Nostradamus. Whatever the benefits and pleasures of our current internet-enriched world, one must admit that it’s not quite as exciting as the setting of Snow Crash. ![]()
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