![]() ![]() which is exactly what Mark Zuckerberg intends to do with Facebook (now under the aegis of new branding called Meta).Īlso read: FB Whistleblower Sophie Zhang On The Social Giant’s Uncomfortable Relationship With Democracies Man, does it get more eerie! In the novel, Stephenson also plotted the Metaverse as an environment-bending setting where people use digital avatars to interact with the online world. The plot thickens! Turns out, the word in the book carried the same connotation as Mark Zuckerberg's vision for what the Metaverse ought to be - essentially a virtual-reality and augmented-reality based experience that will follow up on the exploits made by the current iteration of the internet. ![]() Information Age Eerie similarities with the book Written by author Neal Stephenson and published in 1992, the book may be the first written record of the word "Metaverse." Do you believe in seers with extra-earthly abilities to peek into the future? While being able to see what's about to happen may be a far-fetched estimation, Facebook's new Metaverse ambitions under Mark Zuckerberg were correctly predicted in a 29-year-old book called 'Snow Crash.' ![]()
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