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