What Silicon Valley is Getting Wrong About Snow Crash

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That what Silicon Valley bros remember from the novel Snow Crash is that it coined the term “Metaverse” is really telling.

I’m a geek. I love a good sci-fi novel, love cyberpunk, and had somehow missed Snow Crash. So I threw it on the Libby queue.

Let me just say that the whole Metaverse aspect is the least interesting part of the book. Maybe when…