The author coined the term metaverse 30 years ago in his cult book “Snow Crash”.
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San Francisco Bay Area The science fiction author Neal Stephenson coined the term metaverse 30 years ago in his novel “Snow Crash”. He described early on ideas such as cryptocurrencies or a stepping stone between the brain and the computer that Elon Musk wants to build with his company Neuralink.
Big names in the technology scene such as Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Google founder Sergey Brin and investor Peter Thiel publicly describe themselves as Stephenson fans.
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Mr. Stephenson, some people in Silicon Valley call you the “Technology Nostradamus” because so many of your book ideas later became reality. Is the term correct?
The comparison fits because Nostradamus made no concrete predictions. He wrote crazy stories. Hundreds of years later people look at it and see what they want to see. I’m more Nostradamus than a prophet.
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