What­ev­er the ben­e­fits and plea­sures of our cur­rent inter­net-enriched world, one must admit that it’s not quite as excit­ing as the set­ting of Snow Crash. Orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished in 1992, that nov­el not only made the name of its author Neal Stephen­son, it ele­vat­ed him to the sta­tus of a tech­no­log­i­cal Nos­tradamus. It did so, at … Con­tin­ue read­ing How Neal Stephenson’s Sci-Fi Nov­el Snow Crash Invent­ed the “Meta­verse,” Which Face­book Now Plans to Build (1992)