The Verge Book Club: Talking 'Snow Crash' with Joel Johnson

In the real world — Planet Earth, reality — there are somewhere between six and ten billion people. Perhaps a billion of them have enough money to own a computer; those people have more money than all the others put together. Of these billion potential computer owners, maybe a quarter of them actually bother to own computers, and a quarter of those have machines that are powerful enough to handle the Street protocol. That makes for about sixty million people who can be on the Street at any given time. Add in another sixty million or so who can't really afford it but go there anyways, and at any given time the Street is occupied by twice the population of New York City.

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[Bos Alvertos]

What the hell is a book?

[brewerjason]

Kinda reminds me of the SNL skit with the NPR ladies....

[Clay Mann]

“When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens” - Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash. That first chapter or two are worth getting the book for alone.

[titaneds73]

painful to watch 

[Domenico james Lamberti]

best intro i've seen in a while

[RadeAzazer]

That thing on the Kindle.

[TheDoveness]

talk into the mic blondie

[Justin Griffin]

Ditto.

[TheOfficialNewVHS]

You guys, general tip for your podcast: You should open with a synopsis of the book so we know what the hell you're talking about. I think that's what your video description is supposed to be, but give us a better "in" to the conversation instead of jumping right into the book.

I mean, this is over an hour long, take an extra minute to set the book up for us.

[Oscar Halder]

loved her unsure expression at the beginning of the show.

[Rachel Thompson]

I'm not sure you're sentient now...

[Houseallstarrr]

Great show guys