Snowcrash Created the Metaverse
Oct 03, 2023•50 min
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Episode description
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.
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