I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the ’70s and ’80s. Saturday morning cartoons like ‘Star Blazers’ and ‘Robotech.’ Live action Japanese shows like ‘Ultraman’ and ‘The Space Giants.’ Ernest Cline Read Quote
I don’t even think I was quite a year old. My mother was maybe seven months pregnant with my little brother. I was sucked out of her arms, and she landed 75 yards away from our trailer and had a ruptured disc. The tornado set me down on top of this pile of corrugated lumber and scrap metal. Ernest Cline Read Quote
I’m incredibly nostalgic for the ’80s, because I think that’s when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear. Ernest Cline Read Quote
VR really changes everything for flight because the old simulators for the PC were 2D, and you couldn’t look around inside the cockpit and learn the controls or even track other planes through the cockpit. Ernest Cline Read Quote
Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any borders, I think it could change social networking, entertainment and even politics. Ernest Cline Read Quote
My favorite video game of all time is called ‘Black Tiger’. It’s a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office. Ernest Cline Read Quote
Whenever I watch ‘The Matrix,’ I think that it is possible, but I don’t think that it’s going to be machines enslaving humans. Ernest Cline Read Quote
I was 7 years old when the ’80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me. Ernest Cline Read Quote
I’m surprised that VR has come about so quickly. It’s lucky I just happened to write a book imagining virtual reality right on the cusp of it actually happening. Ernest Cline Read Quote
Everything you could ever want to happen happened to me when ‘Ready Player One’ came out. Ernest Cline Read Quote