[redsocksfan45]

Tech corp execs also read the rest of Snowcrash, unfortunately, so besides the metaverse crap we also got Snowcrash's "gig economy" labor hellscape.

See also, Jennifer Government, numerous works of PKD, etc.

[dmoy]

It's the torment nexus, which literally came out of a reaction to Facebook's rebrand to Meta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus