Fashion Designer- Vera Wang

 Vera Wang was born in New York in 1949

She is a fashion designer most known for her wedding dresses however she expanded her designs to include menswear, jewelry, fragrances, eyewear and more

She worked at Vogue as a fashion editor and worked at Ralph Lauren as an accessory designer

She designed her own wedding dress and then decided to open her own couture bridal gown store- she began by selling only the works of other designers but eventually decided to sell her own designs as well. Her designs had so much success that she decided to exclusively sell her own designs.

Second Life Research

 Second life is a game developed by Phillip Rosedale in 1999. This game is a virtual civilization that allows you to create a unique avatar and interact with other users via chat in different virtual worlds.

Ready Player One Notes

 -2045

- the oasis is an escape from reality

-people can look however they want to

-can make friends, track friends anywhere in the oasis

-James Haliday, invented this tech, he died (church of Star Trek)

-license plate in race is parzival

-meets Artemis in race and saves her

-they helped her to fix her bike

-his parents died so he lives with his aunt and uncle, lost money on the house in the oasis

-discovered in Hallidays memories that he has to drive backwards as fast as he can so that he can win the race

-wins race and gets his first key

-tells his friends and they also get a key

-they went to Hallidays memories and discovered that the girl he loved was only mentioned once in all his memories and that he removed all the other memories including her

-date w Artemis at the dance club

-tells her his real name and it is overheard

-IOI comes and attacks them but he uses his new cube to get out of the situation

-Arty drops him and says he lives in an illusion and reveals that her dad died

meeting with IOI and wade calls the business owner a piece of shit

-IOI blows up his home with his aunt and uncle inside

-Arty finds him in real world and they figure out that the clue is in the movie the shining that he saw on his date

-all of them get sucked out except for Arty who gets jade key

-parzival gets jade key and reveals he is still alive to IOI

-they hunt down him and Samantha, she sacrifices herself to protect wade

-wade saved by real life version of his friends and Samantha taken to loyalty center

-they help her to get out but she wants to shut down the orb from the inside

-z calls on everyone to join him in taking down IOI

-they battle and both Aeche and Daito die

-Wade figures out how to win the last challenge but he is interrupted by the leader of IOI

-he sets off bomb that kills everyone in oasis but wade has extra life 

-he wins the keys and the egg

-Halliday tests him with a contract but he picks up on it

-gets the key to the oasis and all the power

-IOI leader almost shoots him but sees how strongly he loves the oasis

-IOI leader is arrested

-Ogden Marrow comes to meet them

Wade decides to share the Oasis with the high five

-finds out ogden is the curator

-decides to close oasis two days a week because reality is important

Ghost in the Shell

 -thermoptic camouflage used by the girl falling- she shot man through window in the head

-they are creating outer skin for AI robot

-hacker infiltrating the brains of the AI Robots

-Ghost= the memories and thoughts of the robots

-Puppet Master- hacker jacking the ghosts, Definitely on most wanted list,

-garbage man is using the hacking technique to hack the ghost of his wife because of his family problems

-this is picked up on and all these different groups start hunting down the garbage truck

-the garbage man realized what has happened and needs to warn the man who told him how to do it

-this man was a ghost hacked human, they hunted him down and caught him

-the garbage ban was hacked into thinking that he was having family issues so that he would ghost hack and essentially cover for puppet master

-if man realizes tech is in reach he achieves it

-thoughts memories and experiences are unique to her, she reaches the boundaries of her own confinement

=montage of cultural clips 

-"even a doll can have a soul"

-even though she was clearly not in control of her own body the scan shows some presence of a ghost 

-she is paranoid about her organs and is worried that she might be completely synthetic

-she feels like the only thing that makes her feel human is her interactions of them

-memory defines man kind

ghost reveals his presence in the body and says that he has never had a body

-he is not AI he is a living breathing entity that was created in the sea of information 

-wants to unite with her because he knows she is questioning her humanity

-both bodies explode

-they create the girl a new shell