American science fiction author known for long, densely researched novels about technology, cryptography, and civilization — whose Snow Crash coined the term 'metaverse' and whose work influences Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.
Created the concept of the metaverse (in Snow Crash) — the immersive virtual reality internet successor — which has directly shaped how technologists from Second Life to Meta have conceptualized the future of the internet.
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