Snow Crash
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: Listener Mail: Pest Control; a Reptilian Contacts the Gang | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Podcast: Stuff They Don't Want You To KnowUm, I just, I want to understand the connection there because it made me think of a Neil Stephenson book called Ramdi where there's like these Chinese, like it's like a massive multiplayer online game and there's like gold farming that takes place and it's a way of like hiding criminal activity and like almost like a secret currency, you know, way of like, you know, paying for things with this like in-game currency!
- Episode: Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #438
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastSome of the first books I picked up included 'Ender’s Game,' the entire saga by Orson Scott Card, 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson, and 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson.
- Episode: Neal Stephenson explains: What is the metaverse?
Podcast: a16z PodcastI think this is because a central idea of the metaverse, at least in the book, is that there is just one of them.
- Episode: Neal Stephenson on the Future of the Metaverse
Podcast: a16z PodcastIt was originally coined by Neal Stephenson in his book, 'Snow Crash'.
- Episode: Neal Stephenson on the Future of the Metaverse
Podcast: a16z PodcastIf you use 'Snow Crash' as an example from three decades ago, many of the things that you predicted within that novel have come to be, whereas many companies, because you brought up the idea that it's really hard to align people within companies, struggle to set a mission or vision for a couple of years that people can get behind.
- Episode: Neal Stephenson on the Future of the Metaverse
Podcast: a16z PodcastIt's part of the vibe of those types of games, and this mashup vibe is explicitly described in my book 'Snow Crash' as you know how the metaverse kind of looks.
- Episode: John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastThe term 'Metaverse' originates from Neal Stephenson’s book 'Snow Crash,' a formative title for those of us from the '90s. Back in the Doom and Quake era, we contemplated how to create interconnected realms that users could traverse, akin to emerging web technologies.