Snowcrash Created the Metaverse Alienating the Audience

Neil Stephenson's "Snowcrash" looked at the embryonic Internet and projected a future of VR and avatar onto it. And a world in which nation states had been eclipsed by successor states of corporate "franchulates." 
Is "Snowcrash" a corporate dystopia, a libertarian utopia, or merely prophetic?
Brian Brushwood joins to discuss.