 Neal Stephenson, who coined the term in his 1992 novel Snowcrash, and Chris Cox, the chief product officer at Meta, laid out an array of engineering breakthroughs needed to allow millions of people to move seamlessly through immersive virtual worlds displayed on head-mounted devices. The author who first envisioned the metaverse 30 years ago sat ... Davos 2023: Thirty years on, author Neal Stephenson discusses... 