Snowcrash Created the Metaverse
Alienating the Audience
English - October 03, 2023 07:00 - 50 minutes - 68.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 201 ratingsScience Fiction Fiction Comedy comedy humor sciencefiction scifi Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Neil Stephenson's "Snowcrash" looked at the embryonic Internet and projected a future of VR and avatar onto it. And a world in which nation states had been eclipsed by successor states of corporate "franchulates."
Is "Snowcrash" a corporate dystopia, a libertarian utopia, or merely prophetic?
Brian Brushwood joins to discuss.