Ok, so Snow Crash doesn't necessarily put this in a nice light. In effect, wearables! Well not quite, as the following portion demonstrates: In several instances over the course of Snow Crash, the reader is introduced to the concept of a human that has decided to deconstruct the form of their computer, and strap it over the course of the body. But hey, you can't predict everything (smartphones).īut, one thing that recently given me pause in the past few years has been the topic of wearables in society, and healthcare at large, and some sections from Snow Crash that touch on wearable computing. The Hero of the story is a sword-wielding cyber hacker still using a laptop. These include: Rise of MMOs, Social Media, Google Earth, Digital Transactions (Bitcoin), and various other tech developments that can still make you go, "Could that work?" Im not saying it was too far reaching. Snow Crash gets pegged for numerous ideas that have slowly come into being in the two decades since its publication. Sounds nuts right? It is, and why I love it. For those unfamiliar with Snow Crash, the plot boils down to the main character, named (of all things) 'Hiro Protagonist' and his path in preventing the downfall of the metaverse and society at the hands of a virus propagated via the equivalent of social media, all the while existing in a world that is virtually unrecognizable, and has been consumed by corporate greed. Neal Stephenson's breakthrough SciFi novel published in 1992, has often been revisited due to its so-called predictions for the future of technology in society.
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