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Snowcrash Created the Metaverse

Snowcrash Created the Metaverse

FromAlienating the Audience


Snowcrash Created the Metaverse

FromAlienating the Audience

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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Oct 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast 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.
Released:
Oct 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Andrew Heaton and an army of nerds plunge deep, deep into films, books, and TV shows to ask: what's science fiction really about? What is The Twilight Zone really exploring? What are the underlying themes of Star Trek? What is the worldview of Star Wars? Also sometimes Heaton performs comedy on other planets.