I just finished reading Snow Crash. It’s a science fiction book about a time when people commute between reality and the Metaverse. For all intensive purposes this book outlined the concept of The Sims. It details a parallel universe that people “goggle” into. They control avatars in this other world and interact with others just as they would in reality.

Taking in to consideration that Snow Crash was written in 1991 it is absolutely amazing to draw comparisons between what seemed like sci-fi back then and how it exists today. We are close to Neal Stephenson’s idea of the Internet. Lets just hope that a Snow Crash virus is never released.