Science Fiction’s Influence on Web 2.0 (podcast)
In this podcast, LaunchSquad’s Adam Metz and Stanford doctoral candidate Noam Cohen, author of the forthcoming thesis, “Speculative Nostalgias: Metafiction, Science Fiction and the Putative Death of the Novel,” discuss the influence of science-fiction on business, and especially, Web 2.0.
The podcast also features an in-depth discussion of the ramifications of Neal Stephenson’s 1993 novel Snow Crash, and its influence on virtual worlds like Second Life and There.
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[...] Adam Metz Wayne, you may also like the interview I did with Noam Cohen on the relationship between sci-fi and Web 2.0; it’s posted here. [...]
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