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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Replying to @micsolana
Hiro Protagonist has inspired so many tech products. Oculus is popular but it was key to the Xbox. J. Allard’s username was HiroProtagonist (!)
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i genuinely can’t think of a sci-fi author more widely read in tech than stephenson
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Replying to @micsolana
I think Asimov/Hari Sheldon/psychometry comes close
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Replying to @sriramk
i personally hate that book and therefore you are wrong
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Replying to @sriramk @micsolana
We need to have a Twitter fight on this topic now
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Replying to @johncoogan @micsolana
First half was great. Second half was hard to read. Like a lot of recent Stephenson books
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Replying to @sriramk @johncoogan
second half is the best half, how do you manage to be wrong about everything
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