When he read Snow Crash and the description of the Metaverse, he’d thought, I know how to do 80 percent right now—at least theoretically. There was no question in his mind that he was sitting across from a twenty-four-year-old who had the skills and confidence to make it happen. When Abrash mentioned how after a project he always wondered if he could do anything quite as good again, Carmack narrowed his brow and said, “I never wonder that. Mmm.”
