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Re:"Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified b... by RGamma on Monday February 03, 2025 @10:41AM (#42919275)
Even more depressingly these works come to be used as a sort of handbook. Ostensibly Snow Crash is dystopian literature, but tech bros liked it and its author even has been co-opted as a "futurist" by Blue Origin. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
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Re:"Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified b... by lupusreal on Monday February 03, 2025 @12:24PM (#42920548)
Stephenson was one of the first people to work at Blue Origin, back when it was more of a "talk about cool space shit" club. He left long ago though, around the time it started to become a serious rocket company.
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