You know, maybe people are actually taking this seriously.” Peter Kafka Here’s an edited excerpt from our chat: “Holy shit. We discussed whether the metaverse can exist even if high-end virtual reality goggles never catch on why he’s never been able to turn his work into a movie, TV show, or game and his fear of a looming ecological disaster and the science he thinks could solve it. I talked to Stephenson about Snow Crash’s legacy - some of which got auctioned off this week at a Sotheby’s auction - and much more for the Recode Media podcast. People who’ve never written a line of code love his books - and so do bona fide nerds, like the Google Earth developers who used Snow Crash as inspiration, or Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who hired Stephenson to work on his Blue Origin rocket startup. Even if the real-world metaverse doesn’t pan out, Stephenson has had an enormous influence on how we think about tech today.
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