Existe alguma empresa de tecnologia atual no Ready Player One?

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No Ready Player One, dois grandes conglomerados multinacionais controlam a internet: GSS e IOI.

Mas alguma empresa de tecnologia atual ainda existe? O Google, a Apple, o Facebook, etc, ainda existem ou a IOI / GSS os colocou fora do negócio?

    
por TheAsh 16.09.2018 / 13:49

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o YouTube ainda existe.

I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing ’80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn’t part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.

Está implícito que o Youtube ainda estava em uso comum (e não apenas para fins de pesquisa de vídeos antigos):

I considered teleporting to Incipio before my “interview,” to buy a new skin for my avatar. Maybe a tailored suit. Something flashy and expensive. But then I thought better of it. I had nothing to prove to that corporate asshat. After all, I was famous now. I would roll into the meeting wearing my default skin and a f***-off attitude. I would listen to their offer, then tell them to kiss my simulated ass. Maybe I’d record the whole thing and post it on YouTube.

No entanto, o Google não parece ter mantido a vantagem de marca que tem agora:

I prepped for the meeting by pulling up a search engine and learning everything I could about Nolan Sorrento.

Mecanismo de pesquisa. Não é o Google.

A Apple merece apenas uma menção pelos antigos computadores Apple I e II, e a Microsoft e outros não merecem nenhuma menção. Isso é mais provável explicado por:

The OASIS quickly became the single most popular use for the Internet, so much so that the terms “OASIS” and “Internet” gradually became synonymous. And the incredibly easy-to-use three-dimensional OASIS OS, which GSS gave away for free, became the single most popular computer operating system in the world.

    
16.09.2018 / 13:49