Ready Player One: The global bestseller and now a major Steven Spielberg movie

The Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation was a big place.

“No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful.”

A THICK FILM of neglect still covered everything in sight.

“The Holy Trilogies”: Star Wars (original and prequel trilogies, in that order), Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Mad Max, Back to the Future, and Indiana Jones.

All of the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game.

Every flavor of weirdness the human psyche could cook up was being filmed and broadcast online.

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.

here in the OASIS, the classrooms were like holodecks. Teachers could take their students on a virtual field trip every day, without ever leaving the school grounds.

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