Snow Crash
In , a novel by Neal Stephenson, Stephenson examines how expanding technology affects a society. He introduces us to a world where a computer virus is altering people’s minds, and where they have no control over themselves. He vividly describes how Hiro, the protagonist, must fight the virus to save the future of the world.
Technology is expanding everyday. Our society has grown and expanded and has become extremely powerful because of new technologies. People are learning how to use computers in place of their tasks. The Internet is a prime example is of expanding technology. One can obtain yesterday’s and today’s news, listen to music, talk to a friend over seas, view ...
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is the narrator of the novel. As Hiro tells the story, there is no form of government anymore. The government has long been over, and has been replaced by individual corporations with their own sets of rules. There were many corporations, Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong being one of them, where one could be a citizen and apply for a passport. Mr. Lee owned franchises in Hong Kong and people needed a passport in order to get into Greater Hong Kong (p.99). Information was vital to these corporations. Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong asked people to share information with them if the person decided to join the corporation and become partners (p.99). Hiro worked for the CIC (Central Intelligence Agency), where he got interesting information-gossip, videotape, audiotape, or a computer disc concerning different corporations. Large corporations, or any person interested in something he found, paid him for use of the information and used it to their advantage (p.22).
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then they use these cheap off-the-shelf avatars with grainy black and white images. These avatar’s images are of no quality and are really no fun to look at. The people who see these cheap avatars are usually lower class people in reality and they are using the Metaverse to get closer to someone famous, whereas they could not do this in reality (p.41). Top of the line avatars are used by people who usually own their own laptops. Despite the kind of avatar one has, everyone is able to talk to each other, but the "classes" choose not to mix-just like in reality (p.36).
Whenever Hiro walked through he Metaverse, he was careful not to take things from avatars. He did not know, for ...
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