Lee's Greater Hong Kong', or the corporatized American Mafia) or the various residential burbclaves-suburban enclaves that were inspired by the quasi-sovereign gated communities legalized in California by the Davis–Stirling Common Interest Development Act. Much of the territory ceded by the government has been carved up into sovereign enclaves, each run by its own big business franchise (such as 'Mr. The remnants of government maintain authority only in isolated compounds where they transact tedious make-work that is, by and large, irrelevant to the dynamic society around them.

Highway companies compete to attract drivers to their roads and all mail delivery is by hired courier. Mercenary armies compete for national defense contracts while private security guards preserve the peace in sovereign, gated housing developments. Franchising, individual sovereignty, and private vehicles reign supreme over the landscape. Los Angeles is no longer part of the United States, as the federal government of the United States has ceded most of its power and territory to private organizations and entrepreneurs. The story opens in Los Angeles in the 21st century, an unspecified number of years after a worldwide economic collapse. 4.2 Possible film or television adaptation.4.1 Influence on the World Wide Web and computing.Snow Crash was nominated for both the British Science Fiction Award in 1993, and the Arthur C. The god Enki created a counter-program which he called a nam-shub that caused all of humanity to speak different languages as a protection against Asherah (a re-interpretation of the ancient Near Eastern story of the Tower of Babel). According to characters in the book, the goddess Asherah is the personification of a linguistic virus, similar to a computer virus. The book presents the Sumerian language as the firmware programming language for the brainstem, which is supposedly functioning as the BIOS for the human brain. Stephenson has also mentioned that Julian Jaynes' book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind was one of the main influences on Snow Crash. Stephenson wrote about the Macintosh that 'When the computer crashed and wrote gibberish into the bitmap, the result was something that looked vaguely like static on a broken television set-a 'snow crash' '. Was the Command Line' as his term for a particular software failure mode on the early Apple Macintosh computer. Stephenson explained the title of the novel in his 1999 essay ' In the Beginning. Like many of Stephenson's other novels it covers history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics and philosophy. Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992.

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