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Great quote One day we'll engineer a way for humans to survive without sleep in order to boost productivity, unless the dream ad lobby is strong enough to kill

• mooman219 8y ago
  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • Ibethewalrus 8y ago
    Absolutely P. K. Dick
• no1youknowz 8y ago
  I think it'll be more of an inception type affair. Where the individual can go into their own world. With time dilation to engage in whatever they wanted. Imagine spending 5 years working on a startup, where in reality 8 hours passed by. Even better, if you had something like neural lace, where you could have a simulated reality and interact with other dreamers and even save your progress to the real world. This would change everything.
  • roymurdock 8y ago
    Sounds absolutely awful, but I bet you could pitch this Magic-leap "big vision" "10-20 years out" style and get SoftBank to throw a few hundred $M your way
  • bigiain 8y ago
    Excellent! Five man years of call centre staffing in every team member's shift! Think of how much more outbound marketing we can afford to do now!!! (BRB, calling my patent lawyer...)
    • TeMPOraL 8y ago
      > (BRB, calling my patent lawyer...) Can HN comments be used as valid prior art to shoot down patents? I really wish they could be.
      • laingc 8y ago
        They would count as public disclosure, so could be used to invalidate a patent.
  • IanCal 8y ago
    > Imagine spending 5 years working on a startup, where in reality 8 hours passed by. That would require you to be able to process information dramatically faster, by at least a thousand or more times (even cutting out non-work time).
• thecleaner 8y ago
  Plot of my book for sure. Thank you very much !