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I'm surprised there was no mention of the Librarian and the Metaverse, from Snow Crash.
by MaxBarraclough 6y ago
I'm surprised there was no mention of the Librarian and the Metaverse, from Snow Crash.
- nitrogen 6y agoI can't remember which of Greg Egan's novels it was (probably one of Diaspora, Schild's Ladder, or Incandescence), but if I remember right there was another interesting portrayal of a digital library as it could be experienced by fully digitized/"simulated" people.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoSadly I've not read those. I thought the Metaverse and Librarian were interesting takes on the 'web that never was', although I thought the capabilities and limitations of the Librarian seemed a bit inconsistent and arbitrary. It was meant to be a sort of glorified search system with a VR interface, lacking the ability to deeply analyse and reason about subject matter in its database, but it seemed to me that it was essentially a matter of luck whether the Librarian could answer Hiro's various questions.