Tsis tau-ua ntej-pom 'Snow Crash' Cov ntawv sau taub hau rau kev sib tw

Ib tug thawj manuscript ntawm famed novel Los daus tsoo, nrog rau lwm yam khoom siv digital thiab lub cev muaj feem cuam tshuam nrog kev ua haujlwm hauv lub cev, yuav raug muab rau ntawm kev sib tw los ntawm Sotheby's, tus kws kos duab zoo nkauj tshaj tawm hnub Thursday. 

Daus Crash, luam tawm nyob rau hauv 1992 los ntawm speculative dab neeg sau Neal Stephenson, yog lub luag hauj lwm rau coining lub sij hawm "metaverse," thiab nteg tawm lub tswv yim ntawm ib tug virtual reality-based internet populated los ntawm cov neeg siv-tswj avatars. Phau ntawv tau dhau los ua cov ntawv sau tseem ceeb ntawm kev txav mus los tam sim no.  

Kev sib tw ntawm cov ntawv sau yuav qhib rau hnub Monday. Raws li Sotheby's, cov qauv tsim muaj ntau qhov kev kho thiab cov lus piav qhia ua los ntawm Stephenson, thiab yuav nthuav tawm qhov tseem ceeb ntxiv, hloov pauv, thiab tshem tawm cov tshiab rau pej xeem thawj zaug. 

"Stephenson tsis yog tsuas yog kwv yees cov thev naus laus zis uas peb xav txog niaj hnub no, tab sis nws cov tswv yim tau dhau mus los txhawb ntau tiam neeg ntawm cov neeg tsim khoom thiab cov neeg lag luam uas tsim cov ntaub ntawm peb txoj kev loj hlob digital," Sotheby's Global Head of Science & Nrov Culture Cassandra Hatton tau hais hauv ib tsab ntawv. nqe lus. "Qhov no ib-ntawm-ib-kev muag khoom yuav nthuav tawm thawj zaug kev txhim kho ntawm Los daus tsoo, nrog rau ntau yam khoom hais txog thiab tau txais kev tshoov siab los ntawm ib hom ntawv txhais tshiab. "

Sotheby's - uas tau tsa $ 17 lab hauv nws thawj NFT auction nyob rau xyoo 2021 - cia siab tias cov ntawv sau yuav nqa tus nqi ntawm $ 40,000 thiab $ 60,000 ntawm kev sib tw.

Lub auction tseem yuav nthuav tawm cov ntawv sau kawg sau ntawv ntawm Los daus tsoo, thiab ib-ntawm-ib-zoo ntaj tachi, tshwm sim los ntawm riam phom wielded los ntawm Los daus tsooTus protagonist, Hiro Protagonist. Ntaj ntawd, tsim thiab tsim los ntawm Wētā Rhiav, lub tuam txhab New Zealand pom kev pom tom qab Tus tswv ntawm lub Rings thiab Avatar franchises, xav tias yuav muag rau ntawm $ 120,000 thiab $ 180,000. Nws tseem yuav tuaj nrog ib-ntawm-ib NFT ntawm rab ntaj.

"Qhov no yog ib qho ntawm cov khoom tseem ceeb tshaj plaws uas peb tau ua hauv peb txoj haujlwm 30 xyoo," Wētā CEO Richard Taylor tau hais hauv nqe lus. "Cov ntaj xuas tes ua cim qhia txog tib neeg sawv ntawm ntug ntawm lub sijhawm tshiab thaum peb txuas ntxiv mus tshawb nrhiav cov tshiab digital frontiers."

Concurrent nrog lub Los daus tsoo auction, Sotheby's tseem yuav nthuav tawm ntau txhiab tus duab kos duab NFTs tshwm sim los ntawm qhov tshiab. Tias series, Infocalypse, tau tsim los ntawm Stephenson hauv kev koom tes nrog cov kws ua yeeb yam Sterling Crispin thiab Tony Sheeder. Sheeder tsim kev kos duab nrog Stephenson rau cov duab tshiab ntawm Los daus tsoo uas nws thiaj li hloov mus rau hauv nws daim ntawv paub. NFTs yuav muag rau $ 250 ib thooj ntawm Sotheby's tus kheej metaverse.

Stephenson, ib zaug agnostic ntawm cov ntsiab lus ntawm crypto-txawm li cas los xij, los yog tej zaum, vim nws qhov kev sib piv rau cov thev naus laus zis yav dhau los xav los ntawm tus sau hauv dystopian, cov koom haum-tswj lub neej yav tom ntej- tau los puag nws hauv xyoo tas los no. Lub caij ntuj sov dhau los, nws qhia nws txoj kev koom tes nyob rau hauv Lamina1, ib qho kev rau siab los tsim ib tug "dawb metaverse" thiab liberate lub sij hawm metaverse nws tus kheej los ntawm cov hlau tuav. tuam txhab behemoths.