"Real History" with Melissa - Ep. 116 - "Snow Crash with Nick Heys" - June 5, 2025

Discussing Neal Stephenson's novel, Snow Crash, with Nick Heys of Heys Reviews - What are some of Stephenson's jobs as a futurist? - What is Augmented Reality? - The Metaverse, Google Glass, wearable tech. - Pokémon Go - Google Earth - What is Stephenson's educational background? - How are language and history explored in Snow Crash? - Who is Samuel Noah Kramer? - Sex!!! - What are some of the red flags that we noticed? - What did Margaret Mead have to do with the sexual revolution of the 1960s? - What were the Macy Conferences? - Characters in the novel, Hiro Protagonist and Y.T. - Wired magazine - Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet - Stuart Brand, Kevin Kelly, Nicholas Negroponte - Lucasfilm's 1986 Habitat, an online role-playing game - Avatar, post-Vedic word meaning 'to descend' - Peter Thiel - Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Truthstream Media, videos about the Eliza Effect; Joseph Weizenbaum - Noam Chomsky, language, deep structure, surface structure - What is the purpose of the black cube? - A Peter Kay comedy bit on spit. - How does Stephenson bring in Sumer, creation myths, and the Tower of Babel? - What do QR codes look like? - Black Mirror episode, Plaything - What's next for Nick?

Neal Stephenson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson

Margaret Mead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead

Was Margaret Mead Misled or Did She Mislead on Samoa?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/317384

Macy conferences
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy_conferences

Gregory Bateson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Bateson

Let's call it "Pasta Fence" -The Tavistock Century 2020 Vision
https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9781800130029_A49465577/preview-9781800130029_A49465577.pdf

Lucasfilm's Habitat Promotional Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVpulhO3jyc

Claude Shannon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon

Claude (language model)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)

After Babel - George Steiner
https://www.bard.edu/library/arendt/pdfs/Steiner_AfterBabel.pdf

Chomsky's Theory
https://www.structural-learning.com/post/chomskys-theory

The Shallows (book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shallows_(book)

Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
http://yashalevine.com/surveillance-valley

How the Eliza Effect Is Being Used to Game Humanity
https://truthstreammedia.com/2025/05/01/how-the-eliza-effect-is-being-used-to-game-humanity/

Joseph Weizenbaum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weizenbaum

Plaything (Black Mirror)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaything_(Black_Mirror)