Quotes About Technology

As we sprinted from the Candle Room to the Music Club to the Boudoir to the Virtual Video Room, a song called "Interactive" played on a continuous loop in every room. Aech explained that this was a song Prince wrote exclusively for a Myst-like videogame he released with the same title.

Setec Astronomy.

Neal Stephenson.

Con endoesqueletos accionados con servomotor.

I aimed my rocket eighty-eight right into the torrent of enemy fighters and fanned the trigger on my flight stick to fire off a rapid volley of plasma bolts.

OASIS. The Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation

Neuromancer.

Also, don't touch anything, and if you can help it, try not to look at anything either—not for longer than a second or two. Otherwise you might trigger some educational minigame or side quest that you'll be forced to complete, and we'll have to go on without you. We don't have time to stop and play Blue's Clues.

Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe—a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most.

It is the world's first fully functional noninvasive brain-computer interface. It allows an OASIS user to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel their avatar's virtual environment, via signals transmitted directly into their cerebral cortex. The headset's sensor array also monitors and interprets its wearer's brain activity, allowing them to control their OASIS avatar just as they do their physical body—simply by thinking about it.

home videogame consoles had already made most coin-op games obsolete. After the OASIS went online, they stopped making

Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton

Ernest Cline

At the center of all that gear was the opening DJ, R2-D2, hard at work, using his various robotic arms to work the turntables.

come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in the cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.

The ability to mute my peers was one of my favorite things about attending school online, and I took advantage of it almost daily.

now the conditions at many schools had gotten so terrible that every kid with half a brain was being encouraged to stay at home and attend school online. I

containing a single person strapped into a high-end

I need each of you to build the best rig you can, as fast as you can.

a Habashaw OIR-9400

GSS—13th Floor—Vault #42–8675309.

probably because they didn't have to spend half their time acting as babysitters and disciplinarians. The OASIS software took care of that, ensuring that students remained quiet and in their seats. All the teachers had to do was teach.

a combination no self-respecting gunter would have trouble remembering.

Era el nacimiento de una nueva era, una era en la que casi toda la humanidad pasaba la mayor parte de su tiempo libre dentro de un videojuego.