Ethical Reflection on Ready Player One

This last entry will be focusing on answering some questions about the book Ready Player One, I really enjoyed the reading and also the movie, perhaps some things changed in the movie but overall the idea behind both the book and movie are the same and well the questions that I chose to answer are these ones:

1.    Do you find any interesting resemblances between the dystopic “real world” presented in “Ready Player One” and those presented in other works of fiction such as “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, “The Hunger Games”, “The Matrix”, “Soylent Green”, etc.

My answer in this case is that a constant in many dystopian future works of art is first the problem with the energy, in the book they mention that the last crisis that they had was the energetic I believe and a similar idea can be found into the matrix were humans are used as electricity because of the lack of energy I believe, also as always mankind is destroying all their resources and in movies like Blade Runner 2049 we see cities completely full of people in excess, Parzival living in a stack of RV’s is similar to the representation in which you see that cities are full of people and in excess, perhaps I’m being a little crazy here but every dystopian future movie speaks about the lack of resources, the overpopulation and finally the economic segmentation and this movie is no different.

2.    Do you think it’s possible, technologically speaking to have something similar to the OASIS by the years 2040 or 2050?


My answer is yes, and you know? I think we could even have something better than the OASIS, something we haven’t dreamed of and well this is because I I went back in time 20 years and told someone about a device that fits in my pocket and allows me to speak with someone in the other side of the world instantly I would be called crazy! And nowadays many tech companies are focusing on VR and AR and I don’t think it’s crazy to think that in 20-30 years we will be able to have something like OASIS in the world (hopefully free).

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