June 5, 2025 "Real History" with Melissa (Podcast): Ep. 116 - "Snow Crash with Nick Heys"

--{ "Snow Crash with Nick Heys"}-- Discussing Neal Stephenson's novel, Snow Crash, with Nick Heys of Heys Reviews - What are some of Stephenson's jobs as a futurist? - What is Augmented Reality? - The Metaverse, Google Glass, wearable tech. - Pokémon Go - Google Earth - What is Stephenson's educational background? - How are language and history explored in Snow Crash? - Who is Samuel Noah Kramer? - Sex!!! - What are some of the red flags that we noticed? - What did Margaret Mead have to do with the sexual revolution of the 1960s? - What were the Macy Conferences? - Characters in the novel, Hiro Protagonist and Y.T. - Wired magazine - Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet - Stuart Brand, Kevin Kelly, Nicholas Negroponte - Lucasfilm's 1986 Habitat, an online role-playing game - Avatar, post-Vedic word meaning 'to descend' - Peter Thiel - Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Truthstream Media, videos about the Eliza Effect; Joseph Weizenbaum - Noam Chomsky, language, deep structure, surface structure - What is the purpose of the black cube? - A Peter Kay comedy bit on spit. - How does Stephenson bring in Sumer, creation myths, and the Tower of Babel? - What do QR codes look like? - Black Mirror episode, Plaything - What's next for Nick?