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01-23-2018, 08:30 AM
Spielberg on 'Ready Player One' and the future: 'Virtual reality will be a super drug'
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The director behind the upcoming film adaptation of Ready Player One is making some bleak predictions about what lies in store for us in the decades to come.*
While the rest of us are still waiting for Steven Spielberg's vision of creepy AI children (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/) to come true, the legendary director has moved on to imagining how other real-world technologies will affect society. "Virtual reality will be a super drug," he said in a new video promoting Ready Player One, which is set to release in the U.S. on March 30.
SEE ALSO: How did Ernest Cline become the author he is today? Blame George Lucas (http://mashable.com/2015/07/14/ernest-cline-interview/)
Based on Ernest Cline's beloved novel, Ready Player One takes place in a dystopian future where people are hooked on digital fantasies. Spielberg sets the scene for how this technological takeover happens, explaining that "the fabric of our economy is crumbling. It's a good time to escape." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/22/ready-player-one-steven-spielberg-virtual-reality/)
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The director behind the upcoming film adaptation of Ready Player One is making some bleak predictions about what lies in store for us in the decades to come.*
While the rest of us are still waiting for Steven Spielberg's vision of creepy AI children (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/) to come true, the legendary director has moved on to imagining how other real-world technologies will affect society. "Virtual reality will be a super drug," he said in a new video promoting Ready Player One, which is set to release in the U.S. on March 30.
SEE ALSO: How did Ernest Cline become the author he is today? Blame George Lucas (http://mashable.com/2015/07/14/ernest-cline-interview/)
Based on Ernest Cline's beloved novel, Ready Player One takes place in a dystopian future where people are hooked on digital fantasies. Spielberg sets the scene for how this technological takeover happens, explaining that "the fabric of our economy is crumbling. It's a good time to escape." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/22/ready-player-one-steven-spielberg-virtual-reality/)
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