Data and virtual reality.
Penny worth of thoughts upon reading a ST article today on the Japan robot revolution, and also from the speculative fictional TV series the Black Mirror I have been watching with Lnr. Our increasing interaction with computers has now created an entire all-encompassing interactive medium, the virtual reality. And I wonder what the future has in store for us as we are travelling along this reality-virtuality continuum? Will we ride on it and improve our standard of living and quality of life, or will it crush us and make ourselves, and everything else obsolete in the society eventually? Do we need friends if we can create our own in VR, travelling to Mars together and back, do we need real sex if the VR could do better than reality? Do we need people if robots can replace us, better and more efficient? Well again, the good and the bad, like all technology advances. It's not a new topic that hasn't been brought up, but it's implications are getting increasingly intimate in ...