CREATOR1 WORK ON THE SHELF
Neal Stephenson
BIO
Bio
American novelist known for sprawling, idea-packed books including Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, and Seveneves. Snow Crash (1992) gave us the "Metaverse."
WORKS
On the shelf.
ON THE SHOW
On the show.
- Ep 2 — Did science fiction invent our future? (05:06–07:18): Caitlin points out that Facebook renamed itself Meta after the metaverse from Stephenson's Snow Crash. Rob describes the book's metaverse as "kind of a neutral place" and compares it to Ready Player One.