I loved this book ... not for the psychology of the characters, which is basic; nor for the plot, which is not revolutionary. No, of course I loved this book for the universe it describes, exciting and scary at the same time ... at least for the geek I am. Because all the problem lies here: it is a book for geeks, who speaks geek and uses geek references. If you John Hughes is a stranger and NPJ not the beginning of the beginning of any sense ... you'll be clueless. After that, nothing prevents you to love exploring and having an open mind to what is not your culture, it would be even more healthy and beneficial (like Bill Gates said: "If your cultural Does not like geeks, you are in big trouble "), as this culture is today a dominant culture (more and more people play, more and more people have red eyes in front of a screen, more and more world looks and reads fantasy or SF). This book is a cult in the Silicon Valley since he staged a technology that is upon us. We are in 2015 and the first virtual reality helmets will soon hit the market (late 2015, early 2016). Many players in the high-tech market have tried one and been "shocked", not surprised, not shocked, because it simply exceeds all what they expected. The cerebral cortex is completely wrong (he sees is true for him). This new technology will change everything and drain behind the cinema, medicine, education, entertainment in the broadest sense ... even porn put it. It will be at best an enormous revolution that the Internet, if not even more fundamental.
This book shows the possibilities of such a tool. It extrapolates and does not hesitate to detail what she could do for us. The strength or the dark side or both at once. The author's vision is so credible and so inventive that the book became the bedside book of a lot of engineers (including Palmer Luckey creator helmet Oculus Rift - Company bought by Facebook for $ 2 Billion ... , no less ...) The author himself has tried one of these helmets and gave its opinion on Forbes magazine: "I've realized that everything written in javais Player One was going to arrive much sooner than expected. "About the film in preparation for Warner, he adds:" They better hurry, as this is still science fiction. "
