“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. 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. 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. 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. ...”
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