So when depicting a future technology in a work of science fiction, you have to make it plausible. Good science fiction tries to depict futures that are plausible enough to seem convincing to the readers - many of whom are technically savvy, and tough critics. I was aware of that fact thirty years ago when I wrote "Snow Crash," but I didn’t necessarily expect it to happen. After all the buildup in the last few weeks, the Meta announcement has a ripping-off-the-bandaid feeling.Īlmost since the beginning of the genre, science fiction writers have occasionally been given credit for inspiring real-life inventions, so this is not new and it’s not unique. It’s flattering when readers take the work seriously enough to put their own time and money into bringing similar ideas to fruition. How do you feel about a storyline that you wrote in "Snow Crash" now turning into our potential global future? In an email interview a few short hours after CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s presentation yesterday announcing Facebook would rename itself as Meta, Stephenson opened up about seeing his idea begin to come to life. Neal Stephenson is the writer who coined the term "metaverse" 30 years ago in his novel “ Snow Crash.”
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