South Korea Neal Stephenson first coined the word “avatar” in his 1992 science fiction novel “Snow Crash,” which envisioned a futuristic digital world called the Metaverse. To enter cyberspace, one had to transform oneself into an avatar, one's digital ...

 MA It reminds me of what Neal Stephenson defined in his book Snow Crash as a "gargoyle": someone constantly wired into the Metaverse, the book's version of a virtual world. I can't imagine many people encumbering themselves with this tech on a daily basis ...

 NJ Before I go any further, I'm not to first to use this term, according to the wikipedia -- The Metaverse was first described in Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash, where humans, as avatars, interact with each other and software ...

 - Oct 29, 2008 of it appeared in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash , in which a pizza-delivery guy was the hero of an artificial world known as the Metaverse. ...

Arthur C. Clarke left big sci-fi shoes to fill  United States - Mar 25, 2008 a multiplayer online game like World of Warcraft, thank Neal Stephenson for inventing the Metaverse, his three-dimensional online world, in Snow Crash. ...

The "Metaverse" is a phrase that was first used in Neal Stephenson’s science fiction novel Snow Crash. In this science fiction novel written in 1992, the Metaverse can be accessed via public-access computer terminals where you then control your character known as an avatar. This phrase a...

 India - The stated goal of Second Life is to create a world like the Metaverse described by Neal Stephenson, in his novel Snow Crash, a user-defined world of ...

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By noemail@noemail.org (Cory Doctorow) Cory Doctorow: Penguin Books has launched an in-game publishing venture in the online world Second Life, leading with Neal Stephenson's seminal Snow Crash -- naturally, since Snow Crash's Metaverse inspired Second Life! ...