I've been thinking a lot about the future of the internet and technology together. I predict within 50 years we will have a sort of internet where we can basically live in it. Hook something up to your head or whatever, and you're in. A reality that is pretty much non distinguishable from real life. Connected to people all over the world. I even imagine internet cafes, but people hooked up to machines connected to this alternate world, for long time periods. This is something I find very interesting. The Matrix, The Wired, whatever you want to call it, I think it will come before the next century. Thoughts?
Everyone will enter virtual reality permanently, except for religious nuts who will eventually destroy the machines, killing the people inside them. Bad end.
私はインターネットと技術の未来をよく考えていた。50年間以内人が住んでいれるインターネットが開発するのを占う。
>>3
×50年間以内人が住んでいれるインターネットが開発するのを占う。
○50年以内に人が住めるインターネットが開発されていると予想する（or されていることを願う）。
We're already living in a virtual reality. Society is an abstraction of real life, where people labor for pieces of paper and buy things as a substitute for learning skills and finding real enjoyment in life.
>>5
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It must not happen. Science would die due to lack of reality, and a heirarchal system will be introduced by developers, unless we get to it first and make sure that it can not be done.
>>3
Go back to bed, Lain.
You should watch Zegapain sometime.
We have reached the maximum output of our physical bodies, and yet our minds have so much more to learn by the time we physically deteriorate, if we were to allow our brains to play while our bodies slept and rested, we could preserve ourselves longer without the daily stress of gravitational pulls to and from. The mind could visualize its existence, like a very visual dream, conscious, yet unconscious.
While it looks like a promising idea, I fear that personal and mercantile interests will drive away creativity and freedom of thought.
>>11
I doubt we'll see these technologies in our lifetime.
But after whatever cataclysmic destruction that befalls us, erases our existence into thin air, from the ruins left behind, the dusty computers, the near-broken cars, a newer, better world will be formed.
>I doubt we'll see these technologies in our lifetime.
Video games are pushing the boundaries and driving the need for new technology that will make it possible. One day we will have it all.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_perry_on_videogames.html
A Perfect virtual reality, just like a movie. You meet someone, you are soul mates, you have a big fight and you break up where you end up boozing yourself to death and eventually everything works out and there is a happy ending.
>>10-12,14
we already have the technology. it's called drugs.