Ready Player One revisited
A look back at our conversation with author Ernie Cline.
The film Ready Player One, is an adaptation of the well-loved book that's particularly resonant for people who came of age in the 1980s.
The sci-fi movie is set in the year 2045, when the actual world is an environmental disaster, and people spend their time in a virtual fantasy universe called "Oasis". The creator of Oasis has died, leaving the public a quest-style game to solve.
Back in 2011, when the book first came out, Nora interviewed the author, Ernie Cline. Revisiting it in 2018 sheds light on his ideas about tech and culture, but also what we were thinking and talking about way back in September 2011.