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It's interesting on Star Trek how they avoid that with various challenges for the crew, including holodeck malfunctions. But you have to wonder how people back
by goatlover 9y ago
It's interesting on Star Trek how they avoid that with various challenges for the crew, including holodeck malfunctions. But you have to wonder how people back on cozy planet Earth outside of the highly motivated Starfleet types are able to stay away from the total convenience and immersion of holodecks, replicators and transporters.
- Analemma_ 9y agoI believe it was Scott Adams who said that "the holodeck will be Mankind's last invention", and it's a hard point to argue with.
- rhn_mk1 9y agoVirtual reality exists now. Perhaps the exit is in it, and within rules and restrictions which people would apply to themselves to have something to do. People grind for something as inconsequential as Steam achievements.
- goatlover 9y agoTime machines, AI or the holodeck. Take your pick, depending on the writer.
- Godel_unicode 9y agoI've mentioned it on here before, but this is a topic in some Peter F Hamilton novels, notably the Commonwealth saga. There's an interesting take on immortality plus backups, where you can elect to archive certain memories. That way you could e.g. read Lord of the Rings over and over for the first time.
- ImaCake 9y agoI really enjoy that Hamilton envisions a world where the entirety of society has become suburbian and just kind of gently utopian and boring. Then the events of books awaken humanity's desire to explore again, and civilization starts expanding and doing exciting things.