Ready Player One

Taking the next quotations from the book “Ready player one”

Morrow wrote in his autobiography that he’d left GSS because … he felt that the OASIS had evolved into something horrible. “It had become a self-imposed prison for humanity,” he wrote. “A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.” (p. 120)

(Halliday speaking) “I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn’t know how to connect with people there. I was afraid, for all of my life. Right up until I knew it was ending. That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it’s also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.” (p. 364)

I am going to express my opinion about some questions written below.

Do you agree whit the two previous quotations?

Yes, I agree, in some things, is usual for the persons to feel that they do not match in everything, I am almost sure it happens to every person in the world in one or another time of their life, having the option of see, reed and play what you like without somebody else telling that you are weird, or making cruel jokes. I have meet amazing people using internet, of course, we have lot of things in common and he have not meet in the real life and probably it will never happen, at the end if I need to talk about something important I will go with a friend for a hug, for an advice, probably from a different opinion but I cannot count with an online friend, I do not know if they are who the said or if they think about me as a friend.

Do you personally see any virtues in a system like the OASIS?

Yes, all the fun you can have is good but the knowledge that that kind of platform could store, and the access provided for the masses could change the way and the possibilities to learn.  I´d love to read, if I could have enough free time to, so definitely I will read everything in the platform.  

Did 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.?


Unfortunately yes, but no only that, the representation of the society in that books is in many ways correct, the stratification is something usual, we live it day by day, everybody  can see the difference in some areas like, in Mexico, Polanco or Santa Fé are nice places but others like Iztapalapa or Ecatepec have less resources.

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