Snowcrash: Reading Notes on Theme and Subject

Cyberspace, Virtual Reality, the Metaverse

• death in 102, 302, 351
• simulation and reality 305
• rules of space 435
• Avatar 35-36, 40,
• daemon 55, 68
• librarian 69, 107-110, 273

Cyborgs

Prosthesis 225-26, 355, & cyborgs 248, 386; computertech: 23, cyborg dog 94-98, 100, 444; technology and weaponry 312-13, 414

Information, Language, Virus

Information 74; language and culture as virus 118, 208, 229, 239; prosthesis 395; ideology as a virus 350; namshub 127, 217, drug = virus 200, power in/of language 211; Enki 252-58, 277-9, 337, 394 [programming], 396-98, 400, 404-06, network 115, web 370

Commercialization of Everything

1. US Federal government -- Fedland 176, 279-86, 306, 425, 437
2. Military: 21
3. national governments: 14-15, 83, [Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong] 98-99, [Alps franchulate] 145
4. judiciary: 34
5. police 44-48
6. prison 50, 53, 79
7. religion 112-115, 194, 382
8. CIC: Library of Congress + CIA: 22, 123

Infotech

TV and media 119 rock and rap 135-38; infotech and business: 3. 22; hackers and programmers: 21; surveillance 65, 241, 279-81, 290-91; gargoyles 123-24, 265. and surveillance:

Miscellaneous

1. snow crash defined 42, 250;
2. class and identity 61;

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