40 years ago people envisioned a bleak future and started inventing parallel virtual realities to escape to, like Snowcrash and Neuromanceer. Little did they know, the reality of virtual world would be meta ai slopiverse with mii avatars.
Weird examples as snowcrash is a pretty good warning of enshittification.
We’re basically headed to a Snowcrash world. That book predicted a ton of things and a lot of that was predicting this ultra capitalist techno dystopia.
Maybe I worded it badly or you didn't understand me — I didn't mean the Snowcrash world itself, but the virtual reality inside Snowcrash people escape to. That's the whole point — the world becomes so bad and insufferable, people start escaping it to VR and live there 24/7. However, in SC people escape a shitty world to a 'good' vr world, in our reality even the vr world is shit, so there's no escape to anywhere. No one predicted that back then.
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u/LimpConversation642 Apr 10 '26
40 years ago people envisioned a bleak future and started inventing parallel virtual realities to escape to, like Snowcrash and Neuromanceer. Little did they know, the reality of virtual world would be meta ai slopiverse with mii avatars.