I read #SnowCrash by #NealStephenson recently, thinking it had been a long time since I first read it. On the basis that I didn't remember any of it, I must have confused it with another of his novels.

#SF #sciencefiction

The most unrealistic part of #SnowCrash is the suggestion that if your freelance food delivery driver is late or leaves you with someone else's order, the CEO of the place you ordered from will personally come to your house and apologise 😆

#hottake

I'll have to reread Snow Crash as I'm beginning to think it was prescient as to where the US is heading.

In the book the US has collapsed into various fiefdoms run by corporate entities and mafias. The Feds are just another organisation amongst others.

Well worth a read - the book is fizzing with ideas.

What was slightly disturbing was thinking which current billionaire maps the closest to L Bob Rife.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

#usa #snowcrash #neilstephenson #cyberpunk

> That first impression, back at the age of seventeen, was nothing more than that—the gut reaction of a post-adolescent Army brat who had been on his own for about three weeks. His mind was good, but he only understood one or two things in the whole world—samurai movies and the Macintosh—and he understood them far, far too well. It was a worldview with no room for someone like Juanita.
—Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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For me, add Godzilla movies.
#snowcrash

If these whackjobs start communicating in Sumerian, we should probably give Neal Stephenson a medal or something.

Guns, God—and Blockchain: Christian nationalists build techno-theocracy in Appalachia: http://archive.today/2025.04.08-235221/https://www.rawstory.com/christian-nationalism-2671692937/ #Dominionism #dystopia #SnowCrash

[...] Way back 15 years ago, a hacker could sit down and write an entire piece of #software by himself. Now, that's no longer possible. Software comes out of factories, and #hackers are, to a greater or lesser extent, assembly-line workers. Worse yet, they may become managers who never get to write a line of code themselves. -- #snowcrash Neal Stephenson

This strikes a chord!

#cyberpunk #book #quote