Yamamoto Story 5 - Jason Komoda

This story was different from the previous stories because Yamamoto made the virtual worlds seem like the real world, and the real world seem like the virtual world.  I found it pretty cool when he introduced "The First World" term because I honestly thought that it was just some made up idea/world that everyone in the virtual world put into their heads just so they have something to live for and to make their lives more interesting.  However, it actually ended up being the world where real humans live and the place where the other virtual worlds were born or "sim" worlds.  Throughout this entire book, I feel that Yamamoto embraces the idea of living in virtual worlds, especially in this chapter.  Once everyone in the real world started to die from the influenza virus, Yamamoto wrote the rest of the chapter to make us readers feel the need to embrace the virtual world and the AI controlled systems for these virtual worlds.  He put the idea in my mind that the virtual world is some type of utopian world where everything is perfect and things always can go how we want them to. 

This makes me think if our world will ever be perfect.  Or if a perfect world can even exist?  Or what is even the definition of a perfect world?  Honestly, I feel like no perfect ever exists in this world because as soon as humans get what we want, we always end up wanting more.  Especially in this day and age of technology, people are never satisfied with what we invent.  There has to always be a better invention that could make our lives easier or can help us do things more efficiently.  Do we really need these new inventions? Of course not, but that's just how our world is and we just have to accept that fact that the world is always going to evolve whether we want it to or not.

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