Snow Crash

Its kind of cool how the new form of secret agent, the futuristic view is a hacker. Apparently if you are a hacker in this world you have a high social status because the more access to knowledge you have the more you are respected. Not the same was wealth makes a difference in our society. However, wouldn't being a hacker in this world make you have a lot of money also? Maybe wealth and knowledge aren't that separated. But anyway, i find it interesting how the author incorporated Sumerian culture into the cyberspace/ cyberpunk culture. Its like some sort of Scientology kind of take on religion where these god-like alien-like people made this virus and changed people's speech. Also i don't know why but i was thinking about sailor moon every time the computer meta virus came up. Because in one episode there was this computer virus takes over the minds of students and makes them zombies. actually i thought a lot about sailor moon when i was reading this maybe thats just me. but like the same parallels happen in both stories where there are these god-like being's and they fight this evil energy thing and both are futuristic while having this kind of old greek/ sumerian mythology apart of the story. which i love because i love mythology. Also i think its funny how the hero of the story's name is Hiro. its obvious i think. But I like how the author writing is easier to understand and doesn't get to detailed with things. Honestly i don't like sci-fi that much and for the most part i think its because its usually too descriptive with the technologies and i will usually get lost and/ or bored.