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Snowcrash: pleasantly surprised by the quality of the world building, which I love.
It’s amazing how many things he’s predicted (or noticed and predicted would become mainstream) over the years.
Bitcoin, metaverse, the importance of cryptography in modern IT, monetized streaming video, …
Seriously though. They fucking called it, unironically, the metaverse. That's a coined ass phrase. Distopian from the beginning. Weird choice on Meta's part haha.