And he spoke at length about Facebook’s plans to create a version of the metaverse. In October, Zuckerberg announced the rebranding of Facebook as Meta. Neal Stephenson, welcome to “Sway.” So I’m really looking forward to talking about your new book, “Termination Shock.” But I wanted to start with something that’s been in the news a lot in the past couple of months, which you commented on. So, I obviously wanted to ask Neal about what it’s like to see his ideas come into the real world, and if there’s anything to be optimistic about when it comes to climate change. In a review, The New York Times called him a “speculative polymath, a hadron-collider of a mind.” Wow. In it, Stephenson creates a world that’s overrun by the effects of climate change. His latest book, “Termination Shock,” does exactly that. Stephenson’s novels are about the future, of course, but more than anything, reading them makes you feel like he can see into the future. He writes worlds into existence that many sci-fi lovers like myself know and love, like the ones he created in “Snow Crash” and “Cryptonomicon.” And the futuristic concepts in his books have inspired real world inventions - ideas you might have heard of, like the metaverse and Bitcoin. I’m Kara Swisher, and you’re listening to “Sway.” My guest today is author Neal Stephenson. When you walk in the room, do you have sway? kara swisher The novelist Neal Stephenson on Facebook’s next move and how you can survive the climate crisis.
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