In June I mentioned that there would be a few announcements coming up pertaining to the 30th anniversary of the publication of Snow Crash. This is probably the last of those. For almost a year, I've been working with @Sothebys on an auction of Snow Crash-related items. Even before then, I was collaborating with @WetaWorkshop on what we were calling Sword One: the first in a series of real+digital artifacts from the fictional universe of Snow Crash.

The assumption that the Metaverse is primarily an AR/VR thing isn't crazy. In my book it's all VR. And I worked for an AR company--one of several that are putting billions of dollars into building headsets. But... ...I didn't see video games coming when I wrote Snow Crash. I thought that the killer app for computer graphics would be something more akin to TV. But then along came DOOM and generations of games in its wake. That's what made 3D graphics cheap enough to reach a mass audience.

This is the 30th anniversary of the publication of Snow Crash. If you figure in the time I spent writing it, it's been half my life. It's been a wild ride, especially during the last year 😉 I am taking 2022 off from writing so that I can catch a few balls that have been tossed my way. Some of it is big important stuff for me, but every day I'm reminded of how tiny it is compared to the war, the pandemic, Jan. 6th, and atmospheric CO2.