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Snowcrash Created the Metaverse
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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
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