The Net: From cyberspace to everyplace

Kathy Mackey, via Wikimedia Commons

In Snow Crash, a science fiction novel published in 1992, Neal Stephenson envisioned a future in which people lived in a bleak, grim physical world, but it was possible for them to “jack in” through a computer network to the Metaverse, a virtual cyberworld that was much more dramatic and glamorous than the “real” world.

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