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Comment Re:WoW is not the future of cyberspace (Score 1) 176

Having there just be one Metaverse (as Snow Crash seems to imply) is totally unrealistic, because there will (obviously?!) be so many different visions and agendas for what a metaverse should be. (And even if you limit the discussion to commercial exploitation, that includes deeply incompatible agendas, such as "my profit" vs "your profit.") Not that some won't be very popular, but there will never be one-size-fits-all. It's just human nature that no matter what you have, even if it gets a large userbase, there must be people who say, "This MUD is lame" or "This cabal is comprised of lamers" followed by "I'm going to make my own which fixes some problems."

Stephenson actually deals with these aspect pretty early on in the novel. Differences in access quality as well as conflicts between implementing agencies are all discussed in detail. They even become central to some of the plot movements in the last part of the book in the Metaverse-embodied conflict with a nuclear-laden Raven.

I suggest you read Snow Crash again and when you do consider the historical context in which it was written. The man is quite visionary.

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