Episode · a16z Podcast · 2022-12-27
Books mentioned on Best Clips of 2022
We’ve had some incredible guests join us on the a16z podcast this year, ranging from moonshot entrepreneurs, to top creators, to some of the most forward thinking technologists – all of which are busy
Neal Stephenson discussed Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Snow Crash
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is a seminal cyberpunk science fiction novel that famously anticipated the rise of virtual reality, the metaverse, and modern digital culture.
Discussed“and I 30 years ago when I wrote the book I had a different view of it and so I assumed that it would be all about goggles Doom came out the year after snow crash was published”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Snow Crash
“no more so than his foreshadowing novel of snow crash a groundbreaking piece of literature that I imagine the metaverse avatars and AI powered assistants long before their existence”
Passing Cryptonomicon
“not to mention his countless other books like kryptonomicon touching on digital currencies if you haven't already guessed I'm talking Neil Stevenson”
Passing Girl with a Pearl Earring
“I a while ago wanted to expand The Girl With a Pearl Earring so you may have seen one thing that you can do that was actually just announced is you can expand paintings in Dali”