Snow Crash’s Metaverse was filled with ads in 1992, and the real one will be too By Cointelegraph

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Neal Stevenson’s Snow Crash, a techno-dystopian science-fiction novel that has become a legend among Silicon Valley tech bros, predicted the rise of a future Metaverse all the way back in 1992.

Despite Stephenson saying that he was “just making sh*t up,” the eerily accurate predictions and worldbuilding of Snow Crash have been long-revered by tech entrepreneurs and futurists including Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg.