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Published · transcript-backedLikes Snow Crash.
28 Jul 2021 Conversations with Tyler Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History
“It’s that juxtaposition of breaking down California in which people are online half the time and great flotillas of illegal migrants that I love about Snow Crash.”
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- 28 Jul 2021
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…Last two questions. First, what is, to you, the most plausible dystopia in science fiction? The most plausible is Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, and Stephenson saw, really brilliantly, that we would end up spending half our lives on the internet and that our avatars would start having more fun than us. It’s that juxtaposition of breaking down California in which people are online half the time and great flotillas of illegal migrants that I love about Snow Crash. Brilliant book. Actually, two more questions I want to ask now. First, your recent trip to Mexico City — what did you learn there?…
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