Relating this back to a recent blog post from Michael Abrash on how and why he got to where he is, the post starts thusly: "It all started with Snow Crash. If

Relating this back to a recent blog post from Michael Abrash on how and why he got to where he is, the post starts thusly: "It all started with Snow Crash. If I hadn’t read it and fallen in love with the idea of the Metaverse, if it hadn’t made me realize how close networked 3D was to being a reality, if I hadn’t thought I can do that, and more importantly I want to do that, I’d never have embarked on the path that eventually wound up at Valve." http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-what-its-like-and-what-im-doing-2/ http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-w...