I started hearing about it in the mid-90s, as the Internet became a thing. When did you get a sense that the Jeff Bezoses and Mark Zuckerbergs of the world were really influenced by Snow Crash? That this was really meaningful to tech people who were building things? Neal Stephenson You know, maybe people are actually taking this seriously.” Peter Kafka Here’s an edited excerpt from our chat: “Holy shit. We discussed whether the metaverse can exist even if high-end virtual reality goggles never catch on why he’s never been able to turn his work into a movie, TV show, or game and his fear of a looming ecological disaster and the science he thinks could solve it.
I talked to Stephenson about Snow Crash’s legacy - some of which got auctioned off this week at a Sotheby’s auction - and much more for the Recode Media podcast. People who’ve never written a line of code love his books - and so do bona fide nerds, like the Google Earth developers who used Snow Crash as inspiration, or Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who hired Stephenson to work on his Blue Origin rocket startup. Urn:oclc:75555508 Republisher_operator Scandate 20111228024353 Scanner if the real-world metaverse doesn’t pan out, Stephenson has had an enormous influence on how we think about tech today. O元8501W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.31 Pages 486 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1299064027 OL14813122M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work
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