Making ‘Ready Player One’ Non-Fiction
TL;DR
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Ernest Cline (writer of ‘Prepared Participant One’) is creating a metaverse referred to as The Readyverse, and its first expertise is a battle royale referred to as ‘Open.’
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Think about if James Cameron began making strolling/speaking humanoid robots, à la The Terminator…
That’d be kinda cool…proper?
However then, what if he was additionally endowing these robots with an AI consciousness that had the potential to wipe out humanity, additionally like The Terminator.
Not so cool.
☝️ There’re some parallels with that hypothetical, and as we speak’s story…
Ernest Cline’s ‘Prepared Participant One’ tells the story of a not-too-distant future, the place:
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Society as we all know it has largely crumbled
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The world has change into only a tad ‘Mad Max-ish’
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Most of humanity escapes this harsh actuality by way of a VR wonderland generally known as ‘The Oasis’
Yeah, nicely — Ernest Cline is seemingly engaged on constructing stated VR wonderland, irl.
On this actuality, Ernie’s metaverse known as The Readyverse, and its first expertise is a Fortnite-style battle royale referred to as ‘Open.’
On one hand — tremendous thrilling!
Trigger (minus the entire ‘collapse of society’ factor) ‘The Oasis’ metaverse described within the ebook feels like plenty of enjoyable!
On the opposite…slight ‘James-Cameron-building-an-irl-Terminator’ vibes.
Both method, we’re going to attempt it out, trigger we’re suckers for brand spanking new tech and are itching to have our first ‘that is it!’ metaverse second.
(And thus far, we’ve only been let down).
