Ready Player One Is The Roadmap To Digital Dystopia
posted April 23, 2018 #
I have strong opinions on Ready Player One, the Ernest Cline novel turned Speilberg blockbuster. I excitedly read the book and begrudgingly finished it. On the surface, it felt like a YA version of Snow Crash but without any of the actual depth or compelling writing. But I wasn't really able to articulate what it is about it that bothered me so much.
Fortunately, there are many great writers out in the world that do a much better job of thinking and expressing those thoughts than I do. This Verge piece from Laura Hudson - If you want to know how we ended up in a Cyber Dystopia, Read Ready Player One - nails it. There are lots of online sentiments that speak to The Internet not being the utopia it was promised to be at its inception (an understandable result of growth) but the constant drive for us all to "be connected" as some sort of level playing field has reached new levels of absurd.
TDLR: good article about how The Internet has a lot of work to do beyond it's initial promise and how Ready Player One is a crap book that doesn't get it. Do Read.
via Andy Baio
Fortunately, there are many great writers out in the world that do a much better job of thinking and expressing those thoughts than I do. This Verge piece from Laura Hudson - If you want to know how we ended up in a Cyber Dystopia, Read Ready Player One - nails it. There are lots of online sentiments that speak to The Internet not being the utopia it was promised to be at its inception (an understandable result of growth) but the constant drive for us all to "be connected" as some sort of level playing field has reached new levels of absurd.
TDLR: good article about how The Internet has a lot of work to do beyond it's initial promise and how Ready Player One is a crap book that doesn't get it. Do Read.
via Andy Baio