Snowcrash Created the Metaverse

Published: Oct. 3, 2023, 7 a.m.

Neil Stephenson's "Snowcrash" looked at the embryonic Internet and projected a future of VR and avatar onto it. And a world in which nation states had been eclipsed by successor states of corporate "franchulates."\xa0

Is "Snowcrash" a corporate dystopia, a libertarian utopia, or merely prophetic?

Brian Brushwood joins to discuss.