What could be more alluring, living in a shipping container in one of the shanty slums most of Snow Crash's people live in or being one of the lucky few to live in a corporate enclave?
I'm just glad we're going to have the opportunity to live in a cyber-punk dystopia!!!
Read The Diamond Age afterward. It's not exactly a sequel, but all indications seem to show that it takes place in the same world, a couple decades later.
Approx 80-100 years according to Wikipedia [1]. Though no source is cited.
The world of Snow Crash, where a few corporations own the entire world with a very tiny government, is also the basis of the book Jennifer Government [2] by Max Barry.
I found that book a bit easier to read. Diamond Age, I can't get through it yet. Cryptonomicon, also by Neil Stephenson is on my list, as well as Neuromancer by Gibson.
The best kind of dystopia! Better than a fascist totalitarian surveillance state dystopia, anyway. Or at least it is for the people that can hack the cyber-stuff to get at the sweet cyber-juice inside.
I can't wait to get my first neuro-implant, and to crash my first 747 filled with telephone books into my brain.
I'm just glad we're going to have the opportunity to live in a cyber-punk dystopia!!!