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Poll: Virtual reality
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Plug me in!
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I'd rather have a great life without a matrix
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None of them because I like suffering for some reason.
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Virtual reality and the future
#11
RE: Virtual reality and the future
(June 5, 2016 at 7:46 pm)Cato Wrote: How does one eat while constantly plugged in? Who's producing the food and transporting it? Who's building and maintaining the technology? Who's producing the power to keep things running?
Think of something along the lines of a foetus or the-human-centipede. Tongue Our new AI overlords would be producing and transporting the food.
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#12
RE: Virtual reality and the future
(June 5, 2016 at 7:46 pm)Cato Wrote: How does one eat while constantly plugged in? Who's producing the food and transporting it? Who's building and maintaining the technology? Who's producing the power to keep things running?

Slaves man.  Where you been?  We all become good christians, get some slaves and kick back. Tongue
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#13
RE: Virtual reality and the future
I would need more information to decide whether to plug into VR. I'm only interested in VR if it will enhance creativity and free expression. I have doubts on whether it will ultimately do that, however. The powers that be - technology merchants - will slickly market VR to the masses as some golly-gee technology but use it to monitor and monetize our every move. Facebook already bought Oculus. No thanks. If we're going to sign up to be turned into robots, we may as well just go extinct now.
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#14
RE: Virtual reality and the future
Realistically, I'd never do it while I was leaving anyone behind I cared about.

If there somehow was no one, or they could all come with me, plug me in forever!

So using it as entertainment seems to be the only real possibility.
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#15
RE: Virtual reality and the future
The new kid in town, I think over all these options I'd pick having perfected augmented reality and great life together. That way you can be in the real reallity while having a touch of virtual to it.
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