That ’s what a number of venture capitalist and futurists told the Wall Street Journal recently . They cite Stephenson ’s classic novel as a harbinger of many current staple , from World of Warcraft to Google ’s hunt capableness .
Asthe WSJ writes :
“ We are know in Neal Stephenson ’s fib , ” say Bijan Sabet , a collaborator at venture - capital business firm Spark Capital . “ The matter about ‘ Snow Crash ’ is that every few days something happens that make the story come live again and again for me . ”
Tech investor Fred Wilson liken “ a fame - carry section of the Metaverse ” to interactions on Twitter . Execs recount the WSJ that Stephenson bode the hunting capabilities of today ’s Google with the Librarian character . Hiro ’s pizza delivery methods predict the permeative employment of GPS . And Second Life father Philip Rosedale says Snow Crash made him finger as though “ A person had written a novel about what I very much had been remember about my whole life . ”
So what do you suppose ? Are they hyperbolise Snow Crash ’s predictive powers or influence ? Or is it really a prescient novel about the earthly concern of today ? [ WSJ ]
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