• ansiz@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    That’s a good point. Snow Crash does lean heavily into the metaverse in a way that is very aligned with Zuckerberg’s concept of it. I remember early interviews with some silicon valley guys and when Stephenson was the darling out there l, like with the early Xbox guys or Google Earth.

    Maybe Cyberpunk was popular too but just didn’t break through to more mainstream news.