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Ep 209 - Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson

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The Metaverse: A Review

The metaverse is basically an MMO it's basically second life Andrew okay so it is a three dimensional virtual world that you enter by like putting on goggles that are connected to your computer and you can buy real estate there. You can go to clubs there and you can get in fights and I don't think you can have sex because I don't thinks that the avatars can actually touch, he says. The Metaverse was built by a company called Black Systems Incorporated and hero used to work for them as did his ex-girlfriend Juanita as did his friend David where the V is a five is it like a five like he changed the V to the numeric five because hackers of course because

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