
Ep 209 - Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
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The Metaverse: A Guide to Hacking
Andrew: The metaverse is basically it's a big blank planet that got built up and if you're good at hacking you can have a better house than people who are bad at hacking because you made yourself your hacker house. You spend a third to 40% of the book in and out of the metaverse as like hero will if he's in a car and bored we'll just like plug in and hop in there so the plot really kicks off when he's in the metaverse. He says his avatar can look anyway you want it to up to the limitations of your equipment or even if you're ugly you can make your avatar beautiful. Andrew: All of these sounds like second life to
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