Literature

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline · 2011

Lindy Score

3,528·Classic

15 yrs

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2

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Why it endured

In 2044, most of humanity escapes into a virtual reality called the OASIS. A teen must solve a series of 1980s puzzles to inherit its creator's fortune — and control of the simulation.

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Andrej KarpathyAI researcher & former Tesla AI Director

Ready Player One, which paints a likely future where large portion of the population spends time in VR in a Second Life - like environment. This is another example of sci-fi that has repercussions for AI research. Suppose this were true, how amazing would that source of data be, of millions of people interacting in real time in virtual worlds, etc. What does it enable? What kinds of techniques would flourish?

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Casey NeistatFilmmaker & YouTuber

The book is called Ready Player One. It's a sci-fi book. I'm not particularly into sci-fi books, but this book, this book was a wild ride. I thought it was really, really fantastic.

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