Ethical Reflection on Ready Player One

The novel Ready Player One is very interesting. The history caught you from the beginning to the end. There are several things that we can analyze from it. But I think that the most important thing is the impact that the videogame has in the society. Every person was very addicted to that game. That situation could be seen in the real life where people are addicted to the cell phone and applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Using this comparison, I think that the advances in computer science and software engineering are always seeking to improve the people’s life. But it is not always like this. In the case of the OASIS, James Halliday created the game to give the people another reality different that the chaotic world that they live. But the people started to spend more time on the game rather than their real life. Instead of work to change their world’s situations they prefer to escape from reality and hunt the prize offered by Halliday. The worst of this case is that in the real life, the people who are addicted to the technology most of the times are not gaining nothing for it, only wasting time. They are escaping from their life, ignoring the people who are next to them and also wasting unique moments for being in the cell phone. I think that the technology is a powerful tool for those who know how to use it and that have limits about it. The technology is created to improve people’s life and I am in favor to continue developing new things and researching new fields. But, in the other hand, for those who do not know how to use it and limit it, it could be a big distractor that even could provoke several diseases.