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Snow Crash
Sci-Fi
A pizza-delivering samurai hacker investigates a virus that infects both code and brains in a corporate-feudal Los Angeles. Coined the word "metaverse."
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In this 2021 Time profile, Huang invokes Snow Crash and Ready Player One as the imaginative source for NVIDIA's Omniverse and the metaverse he wants to power.
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“A lot of what we invest in and how we look at the future comes from that book”
From Fred Wilson's AVC.com post 'Books For Entrepreneurs' (2009).
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Twitter recommendation.
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Cited from an Entrepreneur.com article on Larry Page's recommended books.
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“Snow Crash is so good. I gotta re-read; it's been too long.”
Recommended in a tweet by Alexis Ohanian.
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Recommended in the cited tweet.
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Among the science-fiction titles in Hotz's book-recommendations segment on the Lex Fridman Podcast #132 (2020).
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7 SOURCEs- time.com · Artificial Intelligence Nvidia Jensen Huang link
- Fred Wilson — Books for Entrepreneurs blog post
- twitter.com tweet
- entrepreneur.com reading list
- twitter.com tweet
- twitter.com tweet
- lexlib.io · 132 George Hotz reading list
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