This story has many iterations about the many people who were influenced by science fiction.
Neal Stephenson’s 1992 techno-thriller Snow Crash was uncannily prescient both technologically and politically. Set in a dystopian anarcho-capitalist future where state-like corporations run the planet, the book deals with a race to stop a deadly neuro-linguistic virus in a world that relies on a type of virtual-reality internet called the metaverse.
German-born Tobias Berger, head of arts at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong’s new arts and culture centre, and former curator at the M+ and Para Site arts centres, explains how the book changed his life.
Neal Stephenson’s 1992 techno-thriller Snow Crash was uncannily prescient both technologically and politically. Set in a dystopian anarcho-capitalist future where state-like corporations run the planet, the book deals with a race to stop a deadly neuro-linguistic virus in a world that relies on a type of virtual-reality internet called the metaverse.
German-born Tobias Berger, head of arts at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong’s new arts and culture centre, and former curator at the M+ and Para Site arts centres, explains how the book changed his life.
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