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At least a few of those have evolving technical solutions. We can all travel in a more sustainable way if we can do full body VR immersion wherever we want to g
by zanny 8y ago
At least a few of those have evolving technical solutions. We can all travel in a more sustainable way if we can do full body VR immersion wherever we want to go. We don't need cars if we have fleets of autonomous vehicles to pick us up and drop us off wherever we want to be on a whim. We can all live in the country if you don't need to commute either yourself or property to and from where you live (the infrastructure to maintain sparse development is much more a hindrance on low density living than just building dwellings). And we can eat all the meat we want if we are growing it ourselves from cultured cells rather than having to make the rest of the animal for years to get just the muscle we want to cook.
No, those aren't the experiences we have today, but I'm not consuming all my performance entertainment as live acts in a theater because doing so would have been unsustainable for the scale you want to produce at. We evolved the technology into film and later television and now we watch what we want, when we want, where we want. The marginal cost of that entertainment went from stadium sized buildings with productions that took years to refine and practice with crews and casts in the hundreds able to perform for a thousand at most to millions of people being able to repeatedly enjoy hand crafted frames and sounds for the marginal cost of cents of power and wire.
A hundred years from now mankind won't lament missing out on driving any more than most people don't crave horseback riding today. Because we innovate our way to better solutions.
And its insane hubris to think mankind is anywhere close to the potential limits of physical science that we won't dramatically, in ways we can't even comprehend or imagine, refine our condition in the decades to come, and for centuries thereafter if we at last that long.
- esotericn 8y agoI agree with a lot of this. That said: > if we can do full body VR immersion wherever we want to go At this point we're basically post scarcity. You plug yourself into the wall, hook yourself up to the IV and that's that. The rest of your post (and all of mine) becomes irrelevant. It's pretty much an "all bets are off" scenario. :P
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- dagw 8y agoWe can all travel in a more sustainable way if we can do full body VR immersion wherever we want to go Will that include simulated human interaction?
- esotericn 8y agoHa! That's a good one. I suppose we'll need to shard it. And simulate some "real" individuals (i.e. non tourists). Maybe they can be NPCs. Gosh.
- dagw 8y agoOr maybe there will be a new tourist industry of locals playing locals in VR to give VR tourists a more authentic experience.
- dx87 8y agoHere's a company working on that by using robots that you connect to through VR and interact with things through their bodies. https://tx-inc.com/ https://tx-inc.com/
- lozf 8y agoOf course, those who can't afford the premium experience will be subjected to either "virtual queues" behind ill-behaved NPCs or in front of conveniently located bill-boards / advertising screens, or the "virtual tout" taking mere product placement to a whole new level.
- jdmichal 8y agoIf you go back far enough, scaled media was traveling groups doing pop-up performances as they rolled through towns, hoping to make enough to keep themselves housed and fed. You make it sound like it was some kind of centralized mass-entertainment complex, but in reality that was rare until media had enough scale to create "rock stars" in the first place!
- CPLX 8y ago> We can all travel in a more sustainable way if we can do full body VR immersion wherever we want to go You have a peculiar and non-standard definition of the word "travel"