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With all recent Metaverse stuff, it seems that Neal Stephenson is public domain now. So many things on the Internet are based on Snow Crash and Diamond Age that
by oriolid 5y ago
With all recent Metaverse stuff, it seems that Neal Stephenson is public domain now. So many things on the Internet are based on Snow Crash and Diamond Age that maybe it's time to move to different book now.
- DonHopkins 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29045605 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29045605 If Mark Zuckerberg trademarks "Metaverse", William Gibson should trademark "Mark Zuckerberg". https://www.wired.com/2015/04/virtual-reality-and-the-pioneers-of-cyberspace/ https://www.wired.com/2015/04/virtual-reality-and-the-pionee... >Virtual Reality and the Pioneers of Cyberspace: 25 years before Oculus, John Perry Barlow described what it was like “being in nothingness.” >[...] And they were ready to make a product. They’d made a promo video starring Timothy Leary. Gullichsen had even registered William Gibson’s term “cyberspace” as an Autodesk trademark, prompting an irritated Gibson to apply for trademark registration of the term “Eric Gullichsen.” By June, they had an implementation which, though clearly the Kitty Hawk version of the technology, endowed people with an instantaneous vision of the Concorde level. [...] moviesCyberspace: The New Explorers: Autodesk Demo Tape on Cyberspace with Timothy Leary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FC4UQDm_mQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FC4UQDm_mQ