Virtual Reality

news break we're already living in virtual reality. take a bus somewhere or walk down a city street, everyone is hooked up and jacked into something and if they're not, they're usually scampering to get to a screen.

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
news break we're already living in virtual reality. take a bus somewhere or walk down a city street, everyone is hooked up and jacked into something and if they're not, they're usually scampering to get to a screen.

Damn ain't that the truth..stuck in front of one right now too

i don't know a life without screens, but the stories i hear are scary.

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
news break we're already living in virtual reality. take a bus somewhere or walk down a city street, everyone is hooked up and jacked into something and if they're not, they're usually scampering to get to a screen.

Word.

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
news break we're already living in virtual reality. take a bus somewhere or walk down a city street, everyone is hooked up and jacked into something and if they're not, they're usually scampering to get to a screen.

Regardless I think this information technology has had changed human behavior, quite radically I might add, on a global scale.

I've heard the reference of kids being born with Ipads growing out their ears. There is an inner human sense of what's going on, that's how deep it is.

Remember, it may be closer to pen and paper, but look up the definition of exponential...

The switch is a lot closer than you could believe.

Originally posted by Dolos
Regardless I think this information technology has had an incredible change in human behavior on a global scale.

Remember, it may be closer to pen and paper, but look up the definition of exponential...

The switch is a lot closer than you could believe.

The big change has been a macro change--having people tweet about everything they see has shrunk the world, but I don't think people themselves have fundamentally changed, which is what you want to see happen.

I wonder, when the telegraph was invented were there proto-Doloses in top hats and sporting waxed mustaches proclaiming the impending singularity?

Originally posted by Omega Vision
I wonder, when the telegraph was invented were there proto-Doloses in top hats and sporting waxed mustaches proclaiming the impending singularity?

My name is Joseph, meaning "Prophet".

In all honesty, it's all another way to express the sense of change and evolution in a progressive manner. It doesn't begin or end with a human-robotic singularity. It is merely a paradigm shift of epic proportions, imo.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
I wonder, when the telegraph was invented were there proto-Doloses in top hats and sporting waxed mustaches proclaiming the impending singularity?

Yes.

1858 the Times of London: "Tomorrow the hearts of the civilized world will beat in a single pulse, and from that time forth forevermore the continental divisions of the earth will, in a measure, lose those conditions of time and distance which now mark their relations."

Around the same time there were also people making prophecies similar to a pseudo-Hegelian social/moral singularity.

Originally posted by Dolos
My name is Joseph, meaning "Prophet".

Every name dictionary I've looked at says "Joseph" means something along the lines of adding or increasing. Eg...

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/joseph
http://www.behindthename.com/name/joseph
http://www.babynames.com/name/Joseph

One exception (likely the true meaning):
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=joseph

I know about "Joseph." 😉

Originally posted by Mindship
Source?

Every name dictionary I've looked at says "Joseph" means something along the lines of adding or increasing. Eg...

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/joseph
http://www.behindthename.com/name/joseph
http://www.babynames.com/name/Joseph

One exception (likely the true meaning):
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=joseph

I know about "Joseph." 😉

Well, I used the example of the Islamic figure, the Prophet, because it fit my angle.

Dolos is a deceptive spirit, 😉 .

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Current communications technology is closer to paper and ink books than it is to hypothetical total-immersion VR technology.

Maybe you missed my point. I was implying that something like "total VR" immersion would be a detrimental thing.

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
Maybe you missed my point. I was implying that something like "total VR" immersion would be a detrimental thing.

Lucid dreaming is kind of similar to virtual reality. It can be indistinguishable from reality, and you can do whatever you feel like doing.

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
Maybe you missed my point. I was implying that something like "total VR" immersion would be a detrimental thing.

I have my own reasons for believing the contrary, but I won't get into that at this moment.