FlumPHP@programming.dev to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoWB’s ‘Ready Player One’ Blockchain, VR, AR, AI ‘Readyverse’ Will Of Course Be A Disasterwww.forbes.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1266arrow-down111
arrow-up1255arrow-down1external-linkWB’s ‘Ready Player One’ Blockchain, VR, AR, AI ‘Readyverse’ Will Of Course Be A Disasterwww.forbes.comFlumPHP@programming.dev to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squareSnapz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36arrow-down1·6 months agoCrazy that this involves the author… We really can’t learn can we? This is seeing the Titanic movie and saying, “yup, we’re building the titanic and sailing into an iceberg! Who’s coming with us?”
minus-squarezaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoNow I’m actually wondering if the author thinks the Ready Player One world is worth living in.
minus-squareVoroxpete@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoHe really does. Ready Player One sounds, on the surface, like a searing critique of corporate capitalist bullshit, but in the end the actual upshot in the novel and movie is “We need kinder, gentler billionaires to be our feudal overlords”.
Crazy that this involves the author… We really can’t learn can we?
This is seeing the Titanic movie and saying, “yup, we’re building the titanic and sailing into an iceberg! Who’s coming with us?”
Now I’m actually wondering if the author thinks the Ready Player One world is worth living in.
He really does.
Ready Player One sounds, on the surface, like a searing critique of corporate capitalist bullshit, but in the end the actual upshot in the novel and movie is “We need kinder, gentler billionaires to be our feudal overlords”.