“Are you ready to enter The Matrix?” the Apple employee asked me.
“No,” I replied. “I’m ready to enter the OASIS.”
In Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel Ready Player One—and the 2018 film adaptation—the OASIS (Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation) is a vast and interconnected virtual space where people from all walks of life…
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