Boswell'sBrain

Blown away with this… soundcloud.com/rowena-russell…

#OptiFine 1.19 is now 100% complete. #OFMAJ

Thank you twitter, this ends my final letters to #bcm325 It’s been fun playing, I’ll see you online. And remember: The Future is Now. ~ Boswell

Dear #bcm325, it’s unfortunate that the future holds so much of the present corruption. The virtual will never get rid of our cultural flaws. Only offer more ways to mask them

Everything is metallic and junk until Wade meets his love interest, and suddenly there are plants and nature everywhere... #BCM325 #ReadyPlayerOne

Dear #bcm325, Sho is a great example of how the virtual doesn’t discriminate between factors. Age, gender, race, the virtual world doesn’t care.

@isabeaurosa @_jessvigurs Funny how the past is the future

Debt collectors aren't unheard of, but these loyalty centres are basically slave labour. Especially towards the end where we see Samantha being forced to set up bomb chains. #BCM325

OASIS grants power to those who are most obsessed with the past, rather than those who are forward thinkers. Why do we think this is the case? #bcm325

@_jessvigurs "Although it is not exactly "real," "cyberspace" is a genuine place. Things happen there that have very genuine consequences.” - Bruce Sterling (1992), The Hacker Crackdown

Whom ever wins the contest will inherit this status and the control of the virtual reality that has become very real to humans. #BCM325

We can connect characters like Halliday to represent a god-like figure in this society that is valuing high-capitalism. Consumers have to engage in this well-known literature and game pieces such as 'The Shining' to win the Easter eggs which are highly sort after. #BCM325

Dear #bcm325, “I’m talking about the real world, with real world consequences” -artimis #readyplayerone "Although it is not exactly "real," "cyberspace" is a genuine place. Things happen there that have very genuine consequences.” - Bruce Sterling (1992)

Dear #bcm325, my favourite thing about this film and future cultures, is that it is so close to the present. Technologically only a small step. Culturally almost synonymous. The future is now.

Dear #bcm325, “You only know what I want you to know, see what I want you to see. That’s what you’re in love with” No matter how similar, we can’t forget the actual and the virtual worlds aren’t the same “You live inside this illusion”

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, ... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system.” - William Gibson, Neuromancer (1989)

Dear #bcm325, “People come to the oasis because of all the things they can do. People stay for all the things they can be” The release from the real world and freedom or the virtual. Both in ability and identity.

“For all that we are able to gain in connectivity, access, capacity, power to process and communicate, and pace at which we live, what is it that we give up in order to allow these things to come to fruition?” elearnmag.acm.org/archive.cfm?ai…

Dear #bcm325, fighting over the virtual in the physical. An interesting statement on the shallowness of the online world. Knowing #thefutureisnow makes me wonder the reflections on todays virtuality vs reality. Are we just as shallow?

Think metaverse, advertisements in feeds, cookies, etc

Dear #bcm325, “It’s nothing less than war. Control of the future” (Referencing battle over the virtual world) Has this already begun for us? I think so

Dear #bcm325, I never noticed before, his headset isn’t blacked out but has glass. Allowing not isolation from the world but AR - Augmented Reality