The concept of viruses in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
carries over into computers, religion and language.
Snow Crash is a virus that alters DNA of brain cells,
able to transmute itself from a biologically transmitted
string of DNA into a set of behaviors. Commonly
described in relation to herpes simplex, a virus which
may reside in the nervous system and never leaves.
It is capable of carrying new genes into existing
neurons and genetically reengineering them. Modern
gene therapists use it for this purpose (Stephenson 231).
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