Just finished the novel #ReadyPlayerOne. Thoroughly enjoyed this one!
Lots of geeky references to classic video games, Dungeons and Dragons, and related culture from the 70s-90s, but set in a near future dystopia dominated by a MMORPG called the OASIS.
Kind of like the Hunger Games, if Cory Doctorow had written it. And Doctorow even makes a brief cameo in the book.
“Ready Player One is a story about desperate people seeking escape from a collapsing society within the confines of a predatory digital world run by ultra-rich oligarchs who will do anything, including committing mass murder, in order to protect their positions of wealth and power. And now a company called Futureverse is teaming up with Warner Bros Discovery and author Ernest Cline to bring that particular Torment Nexus to life with the creation of the Readyverse, which aims to "to bring the promise of the open metaverse depicted in Cline’s Ready Player One novel and the blockbuster film adaptation into a tangible reality.””
Ok. Ready Player One is the obvious answer. But I think there is actually a lot of Minority Report sprinkled throughout the objective Apple is aiming at.