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  • Mudkipology@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Anyone who read Ready Player One and actually believed that was the future deserves to lose $13 trillion.

      • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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        1 year ago

        Exactly. We need breakthroughs that would allow for a full-dive system before that can ever happen. Technology that can individually interface with every neuron in the brain is a very, very long way off.

        • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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          Let’s be real. Even if Facebook could do that right now, who the fuck is going to give Mark fucking Suckerberg full access to their brain? I don’t even trust their apps on my phone. I don’t even trust visiting their website on my computer. How fucking stupid would someone have to be to physically jack their brain into Facebook?

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            Unfortunately, if it was free or cheap, there are a lot of people out there who would do it without a second thought. It wouldn’t take any convincing beyond someone they trust telling them it’s safe and it works.

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            1 year ago

            Technology is the window to opportunity. Once we have the tech, imagination becomes reality.

            • Albert Einstein -
        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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          It doesn’t need to interact with every neuron and that kind of brain interface technology is coming along rapidly. We already have the ability to give people a 6th sensory perception by adding tech to their skull. Shit’s cool as hell and our lord and saviour, Gabe Newell, is currently working in that area.

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          I don’t know about you, but I’ve been lucid dreaming for decades. Don’t even need a computer to do that, just a bed.

          I’m sure there’s heuristics and reductions that can leverage the dreaming capabilities of the brain to create that experience while awake. Hell - certain hallucinogenic compounds do exactly that.

          Give it Internet connectivity and well - what is that if not deep dive?