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Johnny2X2X

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2. Snowcrash was a great book

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2026, 03:24 PM

19 hrs ago

I read it right after I discovered William Gibson's Neuromancer. Cyberpunk as a genre was extremely creative and predictive of a lot of technologies. I think it was William Gibson who coined the term cyberspace in 1982.

I do think we'll end up in those spaces Gibson and Stephenson wrote about, but it might not be until humans can truly be digitized that is happens.

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The whole article is worth a read al bupp 19 hrs ago #1

Snowcrash was a great book Johnny2X2X 19 hrs ago #2