FlumPHP@programming.dev to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 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 · 9 months agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squarezaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoNow I’m actually wondering if the author thinks the Ready Player One world is worth living in.
minus-squareVoroxpete@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 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”.
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”.