Ethical Reflection on Ready Player One

I believe that Ready Player One shows us a version of what can become of our own world, with the current speed at which things like virtual reality, augmented reality and the computer industry as a whole are advancing and growing, it is believable that a system of the scale of the OASIS could someday be achieved. Even with the currently available technology, people use games and social media to escape the problems they might be having in real life, and we are already seeing the problems that having an outlet of that kind can have in people from every age. From kids being less interested in physical activity, teens looking for ways to become internet famous, and older people preferring interactions with strangers on the internet rather than face to face conversations with people they already know, we can see that something like the OASIS could be used in the exact same way as depicted in the book, or even worst. But just like our current technology is not all bad, the OASIS was not all bad, as with everything, moderation is key in the usage of our own pleasures, and many good things also come from the usage of technology in the right way. Possibilities for something like the OASIS in our world, can be the creation of new jobs, the stopping of current wars replaced with wars in the OASIS, a more interconnected sharing of knowledge and many more things. As with everything, it is us who decide to give it a good or a bad use to the technology that we develop, all we can do is hope that our OASIS is not created by some madman planning revenge on the society that we live in and if it is, that we can find a way to stop him.