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Snow Crash and the virtual world

Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputs › Podcast

Published
Publication date18/08/2020
PublisherIn The Zone Podcast
Medium of outputOnline
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

In this episode, Mike and Josh talk about Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson. In the novel, the author presents the concept of the ‘Metaverse’ – a utopian vision of a collective virtual world. But is such a world even possible?