Every book John Carmack recommended on podcasts

Books recommended by John Carmack

Who said what is determined automatically. In hand-checked samples, at least 6% of mentions were credited to the wrong speaker — sometimes an interviewer’s line recorded as the guest’s, sometimes the reverse. Every entry below quotes the words and links to the episode, so you can check it.

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   Snow Crash

   Neal Stephenson · Discussed · 1 episode

   Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is a seminal cyberpunk science fiction novel that famously anticipated the concept of the metaverse, multiplayer virtual worlds, and various digital phenomena.

   Discussed

   “The 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.”

   Lex Fridman Podcast #309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, a… 2022-08-04 Listen at 2:39:27

   Where to get it

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