Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson joins GamesBeat Summit Next speaker roster

We’re excited that our special guest speaker for GamesBeat Summit Next 2022 on October 25-26 in San Francisco will be Neal Stephenson, author of the novel Snow Crash and the science fiction thinker who first coined the term metaverse.

This is a dreamy day for us geeks at GamesBeat, but it’s also relevant to the world, as Stephenson is cofounder of Lamina1, a Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built to empower the open metaverse. And he has also become an advocate for the open metaverse, as it looks like the metaverse is going to graduate from sci-fi to reality. In fact, McKinsey estimated the metaverse will be worth $5 trillion by 2030.