Reading Snow Crash (for the first time ever) in 2008 is kind of unnerving. It's basically here, the Metaverse is Second Life. He even called the penis avatars. The meatspace technology, like smartwheels and Rat Things seems like it'll come 'round in about 20-30 years.
(Also, Hiro Protagonist? Stephenson has got a hilarious set of writers ballsOH
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