
Check out the AWE 2023 website for more information about the agenda, registration, and more. Since 1984, Stephenson has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Seattle with his family.

AWE 2023 organizers expect over 5,000 attendees as well as 300 global exhibitors to participate.

Neal Stephenson joins about four hundred speakers, who include: AWE 2023 focuses on extended reality (XR), which includes virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), the metaverse, haptics and other overlapping technologies helping to underwrite the growth of XR.

Given his background, both as an author about the metaverse and now helping to build its foundation, it makes perfect sense why Neal Stephenson is keynoting at the upcoming Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2023. Recently, Stephenson partnered with Bitcoin Foundation co-founder and venture capitalist Stephenson to build a blockchain, Lamina1, intended to help create the “fabric of the open metaverse.” In his influential 1992 novel, Snow Crash, Stephenson predicted the metaverse (heck, even coining the term), avatars, cryptocurrencies and some socio-political trends as well. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. In science fiction, technologist, and futurism circles, author Neal Stephenson is someone akin to a prophet. Snow Crash: A Novel - Ebook written by Neal Stephenson.
