Ethical Reflection on Ready Player One

According to the next quotations:

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)

In my opinion one supports the other. To be more specific is that everyone needs some place or space where we can escape from reality, but if we use more than we require it will become in our own prison. Nevertheless, this “space” needs to be real like a hobby or a place because it is more beneficial for our psychological integrity; in my case I used dancing to forget about all the things that concerns me.

Oasis can be useful for some important things, like it is used for giving education to students, no matter where they are. Also, it would be useful for work, making the conferences more didactics. Similarly talking about prison, a system like OASIS might be ideal for that, like some countries keep away their prisoners.

I think that if we had a system like OASIS our system would not be affected because our culture is more united, the system only will be used when it is needed. But something that is real is that social network or videogames are like OASIS. The generation of this time consumed many time in this type of entertainment and it is not productive.

For me this idea of dystopic “real world” is interesting specially in the case of The Hunger Games or Divergent I think that if we continue destroying the world without giving solutions the unique solution would be to ration the provisions and working in districts like those books.

Say that if it’s possible to have something like the OASIS by the years 2040 or 2050 it’s like the movie Back to the Future, clearly, we are in progress with virtual reality, like Kinect or Oculus Rift, I can admit or demonstrate something like that but maybe is our future.

Maybe to construct a virtual world we can use two architecture design: Prototype and Observer pattern. Both will be useful, the first one is to create the avatars of the game and the second to connect every user.

Finally, this book is an interesting reading, because the principal character has his own personality. I really like it