Snow Crash

One of my previous posts was talking about how I wanted to branch out into digital marketing. Partly because of the bandwagon and partly because it fascinates me entirely. And there is nothing as rewarding as learning something new. (I've also been allocated some accounts at work that will need a lot of websites built, so its slowly starting to happen).

But one of the problems for a DM bandit is getting up-to-speed. For me, this has involved learning about the history of the internet and the web, getting a bit more familiar with dreamweaver, and writing this shitty little blog.

But to go one step further, to get under the skin of the people who live and breathe this stuff, I've been trying to submerge myself in spod culture too. And one aspect of this is the book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It's a sci-fi wank off. And is about as far away from the things I normally read as humanly possible. But for a book written in 1992, it has certainly seen many of its ideas come to light. Albeit in rudimentary form.

The Brave New World of our generation, perhaps.

Does anyone know to what degree this book has influenced the web as we know it today? It clearly has huge parallels with Second Life and World of Warcraft. But who copied whom?

Good read though, I recommend it to any DM creatives who are looking at making the switch.