Snow Crash
Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id views a bitmap image contained in the file which causes his computer to crash and Da5id to suffer brain damage in the real world. This is the future we now live where all can be brought to life in the metaverse and now all can be taken away. Follow on an adventure with Hiro and YT as they work with the mob to uncover a plot of bi
ISBN: 9789731023021
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Naval Ravikant
Business & Entrepreneurship"Snow Crash is an amazing, amazing book. There’s nothing quite similar to Snow Crash. Snow Crash is in a league of its own."web View source ↗
"Best cyberpunk novel ever written. Slightly dated but very prescient."
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Sergey Brin
Technology"Within the computer field, there are classical books I still find impressive, like Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. That was really ten years ahead of its time. It kind of anticipated what’s going to happen, and I find that really interesting"
blog View source ↗"Ten years ahead of the time anticipated what's going to happen."
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Brandon Stanton
Arts & Design"I love Snow Crash."
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Seth Godin
Business & Entrepreneurship"Such a good book but you can’t give it to someone now. I've tried; it doesn’t work. You have to read it before you’ve been on the internet."
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Austen Allred
Business & Entrepreneurship"One of my favorite books of all-time."
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Cameron Winklevoss
Finance & Investing"Love Snow Crash! We stole from mrb."
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Ev Williams
Business & Entrepreneurship"On the "books read" section of Ev Williams' GoodReads profile."
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Fred Wilson
Finance & Investing"A lot of what we [at USV] invest in and how we look at the future comes from Snow Crash."
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Jensen Huang
Technology"Jensen Huang credits Snow Crash for conjuring the metaverse."
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Larry Page
Business & Entrepreneurship"Entrepreneur.com article."
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Mark Zuckerberg
Business & Entrepreneurship"Anyone interested in [virtual reality] would read Snow Crash."
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Adam Savage
Entertainment"It's a tough call because I prefer other books of Neal Stephenson. But Snow Crash is so important within the history of science fiction."
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