Neal Stephenson

Amber has previously collaborated with Disney, NBCUniversal, and Amazon, and it will now join LAMINA1 to develop open metaverse technologies & experiences. This just in via a news release covered by European Gaming this morning: LAMINA1, the Layer 1 blockchain built for open metaverse creators, adds more gaming expertise to…

Background: Four decades ago, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family, fled to a wild and lonely mountainous corner of British Columbia to avoid the draft. Smuggling backpack loads of high-grade marijuana across the border into Northern Idaho, he quickly amassed an enormous and illegal fortune. With plenty of…

ADB-230204#479 — I just finished Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock. It is a near-future story about a massive, roguish plot to fight climate change, and the physical and political fallout that occurs (in the entertaining style of a Hollywood blockbuster). At the same time as finishing the book, near its cliff-hanger ending, something…

More and more often we hear this word all over the Internet. Some talk about the AR (augmented reality) metaverse, some about the game metaverse, and some understand this word in their own way. In this article I will talk about each spectrum of this vast concept. …

The author Neal Stephenson, who actually came up with the term “Metaverse,” is currently formally developing his own version of the Metaverse. Neal Stephenson is without a doubt frequently mentioned in articles about the Metaverse in the literature. After all, he’s the one who gave the phrase its start with…

Neal Stephenson, metaverse inventor, the writer who coined the actual term “Metaverse,” is now officially working on — what else — his version of the Metaverse. It’s hard to find an article out there discussing the Metaverse without the mention of Neal Stephenson. After all, he’s the one who popularized the…

A business primer for the metaverse. It’s hard to describe Neal Stephenson in just one word. On the surface, he’s an author that writes novels, short stories, and essays. His work has been described as speculative fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and maximalist. …

Does Neal Stephenson’s cyberpunk classic hold up for a 21st century reader? Alex Analysis Part #3. Find Part #2 here and Part #1 here. Next up on my sci-fi classics series: Snow Crash. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is one of the most unique novels I have ever read. It…

Review of the novel by Neal Stephenson