journalists now mad about this new word “metaverse” which tech industry VR enthusiasts have been using in reference to snowcrash for at least the last decade of my career, but in all likelihood since that book was published literally thirty years ago
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Hiro Protagonist has inspired so many tech products. Oculus is popular but it was key to the Xbox. J. Allard’s username was HiroProtagonist (!)
i genuinely can’t think of a sci-fi author more widely read in tech than stephenson
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I think Asimov/Hari Sheldon/psychometry comes close
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i personally hate that book and therefore you are wrong
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At my last startup The Diamond Age was basically required reading.
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How people haven’t been going nuts for the Cryptonomicon in this era is beyond me. It has everything. Cryptography. WWII. Hunts for gold. Building the internet. It needs to be a show and I won’t stop being upset until it’s made.
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