Ready Player One Analysis

Within the book Ready Player One written by Ernest Cline there are many themes to be calculated, one of which is the presence of technology and its ever growing advancement. The book takes place in a dystopian society and follows a teenager named Wade and his journey through the life of his avatar, Parzival, essentially exploring a world within a world. The book takes place in 2045 so evidently technological advances have skyrocketed. The technology in the book, although much more advanced, can be connected to the technology used in today’s society with the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The watershed has been scheming new ways to keep the water and surrounding area clean and well maintained. The book touches points on a new world, the Oasis, new

Within the Oasis, there is a whole different reality with an underlying search for keys and ultimately an egg from a very wealthy individual who had sent out a video which stated, “The first person to find my Easter egg will inherit my entire fortune”(Cline 5). The Easter egg in this book is the central idea, and literally the end game. The entirety of the book focuses on Wade attempting to find the keys to unlock gates to get the egg. Similarly, the Chesapeake Bay Watershed has masked up a new technology called the High-Resolution Land Cover project in which the basis would ensure a more accurate and efficient way of looking into the demographics and land uses with just one scan. These two very different, yet likely advances both give insight to a new “reality”. The Oasis construes reality to make it more pleasurable while the land project helps boost the quality of living and land for humans to

Haptic gloves, which were described as, “allowing users to directly control the hands of their avatar and to interact with their simulated environment…”( Cline 58). Helped further his process and journey in the virtual world. Without the gloves Wade would not have been able to interact as Parzival in finding the egg. The gloves allowed him to maneuver and interact with the environment he was submerged into. Wade alluded to being able to, “...pick up objects, open doors, or operate vehicles…”(Cline 58). The virtual reality Wade is living is far more advanced than the world we currently reside in, but within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and the new technology found to help maintain the shed can be similar to the tools Wade is using. With the bay project; the director of the program Nick Dipasquale referred to the project as, “a technological snapshot, the likes of which we’ve never had before, of exactly how the land is being used across the entire watershed. Now restoration and conservation decisions can be made that more closely and accurately reflect real-world conditions.” The technologies being used to create these snapshots and map out the project to help furnish the watershed is advancing especially seen with this new