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Yes! What's interesting about Gibson's vision is that he assumed connectivity would be hard, but VR would be easy. It's a world of payphones, fax machines, and
by cwp 6y ago
Yes! What's interesting about Gibson's vision is that he assumed connectivity would be hard, but VR would be easy. It's a world of payphones, fax machines, and "simstim" where you can receive someone else's sensory input and ride along inside their head as they move through the world.
That's not where we are now, but we'll be a lot closer to it if and when we nail VR.
- germinalphrase 6y agoSimstim is - at least in part - being worked on by a company called Openwater[0]. Mary Lou Jepsen did a talk at the Long Now Foundation a while back that speaks to the ambition of thought/memory recording via an MRI-like device and the "insertion"/playback of the same in other people [1]. [0]www.openwater.cc [1]www.longnow.org/seminars/02018/oct/29/toward-practical-telepathy/
- cwp 6y agoYeah, I was at that talk. A little out there, but pretty awesome.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoHave you seen Brainstorm from 1983? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/
- cwp 6y agoNo, just the clip that Lou showed at the talk.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoI asked because the world of Brainstorm consisted of payphones too, and they did that 'telepathy' with headsets which could replay recorded experiences over that modem line. Hard to classify that movie, at its time it was pure science-fiction, now it is a technothriller from the past. But very watchable, i think.