TL;DR
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Ernest Cline (creator of ‘Prepared Participant One’) is creating a metaverse known as The Readyverse, and its first expertise is a battle royale known as ‘Open.’
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Think about if James Cameron began making strolling/speaking humanoid robots, à la The Terminator…
That’d be kinda cool…proper?
However then, what if he was additionally endowing these robots with an AI consciousness that had the potential to wipe out humanity, additionally like The Terminator.
Not so cool.
☝️ There’re some parallels with that hypothetical, and right now’s story…
Ernest Cline’s ‘Prepared Participant One’ tells the story of a not-too-distant future, the place:
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Society as we all know it has largely crumbled
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The world has change into only a tad ‘Mad Max-ish’
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Most of humanity escapes this harsh actuality by way of a VR wonderland referred to as ‘The Oasis’
Yeah, nicely — Ernest Cline is outwardly engaged on constructing mentioned VR wonderland, irl.
On this actuality, Ernie’s metaverse is named The Readyverse, and its first expertise is a Fortnite-style battle royale known as ‘Open.’
On one hand — tremendous thrilling!
Trigger (minus the entire ‘collapse of society’ factor) ‘The Oasis’ metaverse described within the e-book seems like plenty of enjoyable!
On the opposite…slight ‘James-Cameron-building-an-irl-Terminator’ vibes.
Both manner, we’re going to strive it out, trigger we’re suckers for brand new tech and are itching to have our first ‘that is it!’ metaverse second.
(And up to now, we’ve only been let down).