Sumerian culture was organized around these programs (known as me), which priests administered to the populace. Lagos's research showed that the ancient Sumerian ur-language allowed brain function to be "programmed" using audio stimuli in conjunction with a DNA-altering virus. Hiro's investigations and Y.T.'s intelligence gathering begin to coincide, with links between the neuro-linguistic viruses, a religious organization known as Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates and a media magnate named L. Bob Rife beginning to emerge. Impressed by her attitude and initiative, he arranges to meet her and offers her freelance jobs. The Mafia boss Uncle Enzo begins to take a paternal interest in Y.T. Juanita advises him to be careful and disappears. This research posits connections between the virus, ancient Sumerian culture, and the legend of the Tower of Babel. Hiro meets his ex-girlfriend Juanita Marquez, who gives him a database containing a large amount of research compiled by her associate, Lagos. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id views a bitmap image contained in the file, which causes his computer to crash and Da5id to suffer brain damage in the real world. Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven, who hints that it is a form of narcotic. completes the delivery on his behalf, and they strike up a partnership, gathering intel and selling it to the CIC. (short for Yours Truly), a young skateboard Kourier ( courier), who refers to herself in the third person, during a failed attempt to make a delivery on time. Hiro Protagonist is a hacker and pizza delivery driver for the Mafia. In this future, American institutions are far different from those in the actual United States at the time the book was published for example, a for-profit organization, the CIC, has evolved from the CIA's merger with the Library of Congress. : 176 Much of the world's territory has been carved up into sovereign enclaves known as Franchise-Organized Quasi-National Entities (FOQNEs), : 14 each run by its own big business franchise (such as "Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong", or the corporatized American Mafia), or various residential burbclaves (quasi-sovereign gated communities). : 306 The remnants of government maintain authority only in isolated compounds, where they do tedious make-work that is, by and large, irrelevant to the society around them. : 45 Highway companies compete to attract drivers to their roads, : 7 and all mail delivery is by hired courier. Mercenary armies compete for national defense contracts, while private security guards preserve the peace in sovereign gated housing developments. Franchising, individual sovereignty, and private vehicles reign supreme. Los Angeles is no longer part of the United States since the federal government has ceded most of its power and territory to private organizations and entrepreneurs. The story opens in Los Angeles in the 21st century, an unspecified number of years after a worldwide economic collapse. Snow Crash was nominated for both the British Science Fiction Award in 1993 and the Arthur C. I have probably spent more hours coding during the production of this work than I did actually writing it, even though it eventually turned away from the original graphic concept. It became clear that the only way to make the Mac do the things we needed was to write a lot of custom image-processing software. In the author's acknowledgments (in some editions), Stephenson recalls: Stephenson originally planned Snow Crash as a computer-generated graphic novel in collaboration with artist Tony Sheeder. Stephenson has also mentioned that Julian Jaynes' book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind was one of the main influences on Snow Crash. Stephenson wrote about the Macintosh "When the computer crashed and wrote gibberish into the bitmap, the result was something that looked vaguely like static on a broken television set-a 'snow crash '". Was the Command Line", Stephenson explained the title of the novel as his term for a particular software failure mode on the early Macintosh computer. Like many of Stephenson's novels, its themes include history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics, and philosophy. Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by the American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992.
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