That would be in Snow Crash, the 1992 dystopia/parody he wrote about people who escape the physical world by strapping on goggles and disappearing in the metaverse.Which is now the vision of the ...

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So you haven't read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson? Then pull up a seat as we jack into the sci-fi Metaverse in this cyberpunk novel that centers around Hero Protagonist. A CosoNostra Pizza ...

Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson at the Dice Summit 2023. Ava Labs simplifies the deployment of high-performance Web3 solutions, focusing on innovations within the Avalanche ecosystem.

Neal Stephenson invented the metaverse. At least from an imagination standpoint. Though other science fiction writers had similar ideas—and the pioneers of VR were already building artificial ...

Sotheby’s will soon auction off the original manuscript for “Snow Crash,” Neal Stephenson’s landmark 1992 science fiction book that coined the terms “metaverse” and “avatar." “This ...

Started by Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson, Lamina1 is a Layer 1 blockchain optimized for the open metaverse. It announced its first content and infrastructure builders from across gaming ...

Interestingly, Snow Crash’s Stephenson has now launched a metaverse startup called Lamina1. Wagner says, “Neal Stephenson launched it with a major player in the Bitcoin industry, Peter Vessenes.