"There's a long history of science fiction literature influencing technology projects," wrote author Neal Stephenson in a rare e-mail interview. "It's nice when it happens, because it suggests that the vision described in the book made sense, at some level, to engineers..."
"Authors such as William Gibson ("Neuromancer") and Vernor Vinge ("True Names") pioneered writing about cyberspace and its possibilities, but Stephenson's 1992 novel "Snow Crash" provides the clearest vision for technology like Second Life." /Chicago Tribune/
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