Neal Stephenson on cyber warfare and our self-fulfilling sci-fi future

“In a way I’m more surprised by the things I got totally wrong,” Stephenson told The Verge during a brief interview after his Black Hat talk. He recalled how his idea of the Metaverse as a kind of centralized virtual locale fell through, yielding instead to a richer and more widespread world wide web. “It’s more interesting to see the way things turn out differently from what you were expecting,” he said. “That’s where the fun part is for me.”