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Ethical Reflection on 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)
It is an often topic that circulates now a days, about world domination, and what have we done to this planet we live in. Everyone has it’s own way to manipulate their reality and have different perspectives about the world. For some people it is video games, for other people is book, music. Certain activities that manage to focus our thoughts and perception.

In the book Ready Player One, the OASIS system is presented, In my opinion it is an interesting resource for learning and I see it as a great tool for being open source, for everyone to modify that “reality” in order to create.

We live in a globalized world, culture has being taken away from our daily lives, as we grow in society, cultures are slowly faded away, with an interface like the OASIS, our personal and cultural values could be modified into a global schema, it depends on the stimulation and interaction people have with this system.

I think the concept behind OASIS is a good resource to analyse how we live now a days, we use technology all the time, it can also define certain features into our daily lives, we learn from media, an it is a tool that is very sharp and has two blades, depends on us on how we use it. Finally is an virtual integration where communication is established.

It is interesting how movies and books are connected in certain topics, many writes and directors are heading a same pathway, where the main focus is technology, as our human kind transcendence.

Thinking about the future, as I see everything today, I think it is possible to have that kind of technology such as the OASIS system in the future, but like the movie Back to The Future, our perception about the future has no solid basis.

Many systems are being developed, but the focus of that software are limited by their creators, and many of that software are closed, in order to create an immense system such as the OASIS, it is vital to make it open source, because the limitation will be from their creator, and everyone could become a creator.

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