Ready Player One Reflection

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Throughout the month of March I finished Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, which focused heavily on the future, and quickly began the famous science fiction novel 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke out of wonder for what people nearly four decades ago thought the world we live in today would be like. I had ample amounts of time to meet and exceed my goal whether that be at 6th grade camp, on the plane over spring break or on my lazy sundays. To my surprise I was able to finish the novel in just over a months time and become a stronger reader in the process. The fact that I also found this book wildly interesting also contributed to my ability to finish it so quickly but nonetheless I have definitely gone from a good reader to great …show more content…

Of course the author isn’t able to give names and dates - which isn't really a limiting factor when all all the author has at his disposal to convey a predictiction are words on a page - since doing so would encapsulate the novel in a monolith of time and relativity similar to the one Bowman and his crew were searching for on their journey to Saturn. Although some commonalities in today's society such as our multitude of voice assistants or strong intermingling of races were mentioned but only in the slightest. I felt this lack of commonplace constructs and amenities draw me out of the book and back to reality. Again, it’s hard to predict major changes to the status quo such as a decrease in government funding for NASA giving way to private companies leading interstellar travel. Even still some of these forecast seemed misplaced and disregarded. Just as HAL 9000, the ever popular evil voice assistant, would come to represent Siri (the first publicly available voice assistant released ten years after the books predicted timestamp) many other necessities described also occured prior to their predicted arrival. Nevertheless, I wouldn’t even go as far as to call this oversight since the things that seem unreal, far fetched, and out there are the same things that have intrigued readers for decades. For the most part, this novel has withstood the test of time and I accredit that to the immense amounts of research I mentioned before

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