1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Snowcrash Created the Metaverse Neil Stephenson's &quot;Snowcrash&quot; looked at the embryonic Internet and projected a future of VR and avatar onto it. And a world in which nation states had been eclipsed by successor states of corporate &quot;franchulates.&quot;&amp;nbsp; Is &quot;Snowcrash&quot; a corporate dystopia, a libertarian utopia, or merely prophetic? Brian Brushwood joins to discuss. Alienating the Audience http://alienating.libsyn.com/website <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/28182770/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/item/28182770