Snow Crash, an interesting Novel, to say the least. Poor dorky pizza delivery boy in Reality, super cool ninja sword man wearing long black trench coat in the Metaverse. Who wouldn't want to live in Virtual Reality. I was reminded of Batman and his oober cool bat mobile when the Deliverator was "risking" his life to deliver his pizza on time in the beginning of the story. He was doing every day things but would somehow switch over to this fantasy world to make his life easier to cope with. It baffled me how the littlest of things could become something huge and completely different in his VR world. This entire world is created by the imagination. You can be whatever you want to be and fight crimes with the baddest of evils ( the government/corporations). Hackers are the protagonists fighting injustices; saving the universe one swipe of the sword at a time.
Basically saying, those who cant fit into the norm socially, create their own lives and social networks through VR. Im sorry, but I could not help but laugh while reading this book. It did open my eyes to the many uses of the "Cyber World" today, take for example books, music, movies, and video games. Take for example, The Matrix. This was completely based from cyberpunk relations. Focusing on high tech and low life. Neo, living a secret life as a hacker under "Neo". He wishes to learn the answer to the question, "What is the Matrix?" Cryptic messages appearing on his computer monitor and an encounter with several sinister agents in order to give normalcy to innocent people.
I loved this weeks readings, I wish I were a nerdy computer hacker.
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