This is not another post about the metaverse. Well, not exactly… but with the Meta rebrand solidifying the concept in the 2021 zeitgeist, there is a less explored, and I believe critical concept, from the same novel — Neal Stephenson’s “Snowcrash” — that has me thinking. In Stephenson’s “Snowcrash” Hiro Protagonist, the aptly named protagonist of the book, side hustles as a “Stringer for CIC”; essentially a gig economy worker collecting digital intelligence and posting it to a massive data ma...

This is not another post about the metaverse. Well, not exactly… but with the Meta rebrand solidifying the concept in the 2021 zeitgeist, there is a less explored, and I believe critical concept, from the same novel — Neal Stephenson’s “Snowcrash” — that has me thinking. In Stephenson’s “Snowcrash” Hiro Protagonist, the aptly named protagonist of the book, side hustles as a “Stringer for CIC”; essentially a gig economy worker collecting digital intelligence and posting it to a massive data ma...