Snow Crash

This novel was very interesting for me, and I definitely felt the spirit of the cyberpunk genre in it. The world of the future is both technically advanced and socially and economically crumbled in a way. The story gets its own title from the name of a futuristic addictive drug that can actually travel and effect its users digitally, able to spread through technology itself. The drug is able to target people through technology, essentially making people addicted to technology itself. This could definitely be interpreted as modern days supposed dependency on technology being displayed as a literal addiction. As with most cyberpunk stories, technology plays a large part in the world, as does industry and commercialism, which also seems to have a dangerous amount of influence on the citizens.

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