Ready Player One

Ready Player One seemed like an accurate glimpse into the short future, a future that will problem arrive even sooner then the books predicts. We are encountering worsening states of poverty, global warming, and energy shortages. The obsession with escaping reality is already prevalent today. Before the internet, people did drugs, now people play games like SIMs, and in the future virtual reality will make escaping the real world all the more easier.   The book was a great read with lots o social commentary that I found both amusing and horrifyingly true.  Particularly Wades opinion on politics, I found having already come into fruition," Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists. (p.202) "

Set Designer

The Book did a superb job in providing plenty of visual commentary for Wades world. I can clearly imagine the overcrowded trailer park Wade grew up in. I an envision clear walls dividing the poor from he rich. I imagine somewhat of post apocalyptic-cyber world with near non-existant middle class, just the wealth, the poor, and the homeless. I imagine mounds of trash and junk metal surrounding low income communities, wastelands of trash.  


Wade's stacked trailer home apartment may look like this but there would be dozens of them, packed as close together as possible, similar to a metropolitan city ...




When Wade was describing the homeless communities he passed by while relocating to a apartment complex I immediately thought about America in the 1930's. This time period was the 21st century version of The Great Depression and the Dustbowl. I envision cyber Hoovervilles surrounding the outskirt of every city. 

For the evil IOI headquarters, I can see this obnoxious sky scraper standing piercing the sky. It be surrounded by a smaller but high rise buildings where the rest of wealthy percenters would work and live.