Neal Stephenson reacts to Facebook name change
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Re: Neal Stephenson reacts to Facebook name change
#2Well, he didn't do a William Sherman:
"If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve."
Re: Neal Stephenson reacts to Facebook name change
#3He hinted at the revenue model being a big difference between whatever Facebook is building and the plot of his novel "Snow Crash"
Can someone fill in the specifics? I guess the trouble is that for Facebook, you're the product, and advertisers are the clients - but, what is the revenue model of the metaverse from Snow Crash?
Re: Neal Stephenson reacts to Facebook name change
#4He should auction an NFT and Zuck/FB/MVRS should buy it for a decent amount
Re: Neal Stephenson reacts to Facebook name change
#5He should auction an NFT and Zuck/FB/MVRS should buy it for a decent amount
or MVRS could just make the NFT and own it for free
Re: Neal Stephenson reacts to Facebook name change
#6Can anybody recommend authors like Stephenson? He is my favourite author by far and it's going to be a sad day when I exhaust his works.
Re: Neal Stephenson reacts to Facebook name change
#7He hinted at the revenue model being a big difference between whatever Facebook is building and the plot of his novel "Snow Crash" Can someone fill in the specifics? I guess the trouble is that for Facebook, you're the product, and advertisers are the clients - but, what is the revenue model of the metaverse from Snow Crash?
It’s been a few years but I vaguely remember a discussion of address-space in the metaverse, so could be a matter of essentially paying for a “static address” on a particular server. Isn’t the metaverse operated solely by Black Sun? I don’t remember any description of a decentralization/interoperability
Re: Neal Stephenson reacts to Facebook name change
#8Snow Crash is really a gread book, a lot of philosophy intertwined with technology and religion in one compact package.
Re: Neal Stephenson reacts to Facebook name change
#9Can anybody recommend authors like Stephenson? He is my favourite author by far and it's going to be a sad day when I exhaust his works.
Pat Cadigan's Synners.
Re: Neal Stephenson reacts to Facebook name change
#10He hinted at the revenue model being a big difference between whatever Facebook is building and the plot of his novel "Snow Crash" Can someone fill in the specifics? I guess the trouble is that for Facebook, you're the product, and advertisers are the clients - but, what is the revenue model of the metaverse from Snow Crash?
From what I loosely remember, snowcrash depict a interoperable layer where actors build marketplaces.