Keeping movies and science fiction novels based on cyberspace/virtuality/cyberspace in a proper viewpoint as just popular fiction ideas, the inevitability of the merging of our meat brains, computers, and networks into one shared new plan of existence is the ultimate expression and realization of what human religious beliefs and philosophies have sought since the beginning of history.
Every year that passes and technology moves forward we come closer to achieve the overcoming of the meat- of death, of limitations. Who here cannot see this? We will all be willingly reduced to brains in a vat, connected via medium of experience that is god-like- where we can create and do anything. Sure we can still see the "real world" through cameras and other devices, but why bother? The real world will be a place just for archeologists.
We shall see the beginnings of this in just a few more years as millions of people start to live dichotomatic lives- half in the real world, half in virtual worlds. People will change the way they live in order to maximize their time in fictional virtual worlds, where they can be anybody and do anything.
This may sound all optimistic but I expect much blood to be shed over the cultural shockwave that will occur.
Honestly, if you could have an OC768 bolted into your skull and could mainline the Net, wouldn't you do it?
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Keeping movies and science fiction novels based on cyberspace/virtuality/cyberspace in a proper viewpoint as just popular fiction ideas, the inevitability of the merging of our meat brains, computers, and networks into one shared new plan of existence is the ultimate expression and realization of what human religious beliefs and philosophies have sought since the beginning of history. Every year that passes and technology moves forward we come closer to achieve the overcoming of the meat- of death, of limitations. Who here cannot see this? We will all be willingly reduced to brains in a vat, connected via medium of experience that is god-like- where we can create and do anything. Sure we can still see the "real world" through cameras and other devices, but why bother? The real world will be a place just for archeologists. We shall see the beginnings of this in just a few more years as millions of people start to live dichotomatic lives- half in the real world, half in virtual worlds. People will change the way they live in order to maximize their time in fictional virtual worlds, where they can be anybody and do anything. This may sound all optimistic but I expect much blood to be shed over the cultural shockwave that will occur. Honestly, if you could have an OC768 bolted into your skull and could mainline the Net, wouldn't you do it?