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What could be more alluring, living in a shipping container in one of the shanty slums most of Snow Crash's people live in or being one of the lucky few to live
by wavefunction 9y ago
What could be more alluring, living in a shipping container in one of the shanty slums most of Snow Crash's people live in or being one of the lucky few to live in a corporate enclave?
I'm just glad we're going to have the opportunity to live in a cyber-punk dystopia!!!
- logfromblammo 9y agoThe best kind of dystopia! Better than a fascist totalitarian surveillance state dystopia, anyway. Or at least it is for the people that can hack the cyber-stuff to get at the sweet cyber-juice inside. I can't wait to get my first neuro-implant, and to crash my first 747 filled with telephone books into my brain.
- creaghpatr 9y agoI just started reading Snow Crash, really loving it.
- s73ver_ 9y agoRead The Diamond Age afterward. It's not exactly a sequel, but all indications seem to show that it takes place in the same world, a couple decades later.
- Fnoord 9y agoApprox 80-100 years according to Wikipedia [1]. Though no source is cited. The world of Snow Crash, where a few corporations own the entire world with a very tiny government, is also the basis of the book Jennifer Government [2] by Max Barry. I found that book a bit easier to read. Diamond Age, I can't get through it yet. Cryptonomicon, also by Neil Stephenson is on my list, as well as Neuromancer by Gibson. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age#Snow_Crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age#Snow_Crash [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Government
- scottlegrand2 9y agoSoon to be a TV series... http://deadline.com/2017/09/ringworld-lazarus-snow-crash-amazon-genre-drama-series-push-1202179073/ http://deadline.com/2017/09/ringworld-lazarus-snow-crash-ama...