Ready Player One

Date

2019/08/13

Description

It is the year 2045 and the world is in troubled. There’s global warming, an ongoing energy crisis and most people are living in poverty. Almost everyone is logged on to the virtual utopia OASIS.

Wade Watts is a high school aged kid who’s obsessed with the creator of OASIS and his puzzles. The puzzles are centered around facts of the creator of OASIS life and would lead to a huge inheritance and control over the future of OASIS. Everyone is looking to solve the puzzles which centered around 80 pop culter and video games.

Takeaways

VR classrooms
- Teachers and students have access to basically all human knowledge
- Problematic students can be muted be teachers and other students
VR that is “good enough” to feel real would have tons of tradeoffs
- More relationships where people never meet in real life
- Anyone can be anything they want
- Exercise
Modern day Willy Wonka
Parallels from OASIS creator to Carmack and Romero