Neal Stephenson is a bestselling author and futurist whose work has shaped the cultural imagination around science and technology for more than three decades. His novels, including Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Diamond Age, have influenced generations of technologists and entrepreneurs. He has been coding in various languages for over fifty years. He has served as Chief Futurist at Magic Leap, co-founded Lamina1, a blockchain to support the open Metaverse, and is currently building Whenere, an immersive storytelling world where readers can inhabit and interact with fiction.