OFF TOPIC Snow Crash [was Re: Hello World]

[alex23]

On 24/12/2014 2:20 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> And even _with_ all the technical jibber-jabber, none of it explained
> or justified the whole "writing a virus to infect the brain through
> the optic nerve" thing which might just have well been magick and
> witches.

While I love SNOW CRASH, I do think it'd fundamentally flawed. The worst 
for me is that in a fictional universe with a VR system capable of 
displaying anything, the crux of the book revolves around a couple of 
characters having a long, long discussion about Sumerian history.

	A: "<blah blah blah blah blah Sumeria>"
	B: "And then what?"
	A: "<blah blah blah blah....>"
	B: etc

It's been at least a decade since I read it, but wasn't that also the 
explanation for how the virus worked?