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Virtual reality may be our only way out of a climate/energy/resource crisis. If experiences can be simulated, and people can stay inside 8 foot hovels eating gr
by spoonjim 5y ago
Virtual reality may be our only way out of a climate/energy/resource crisis. If experiences can be simulated, and people can stay inside 8 foot hovels eating gruel while virtual reality makes it feel like Versailles and filet mignon, we could reduce resource consumption dramatically.
- SuoDuanDao 5y agoThe Matrix imagines that future very vividly. I'd have to wonder what we were optimising for to arrive at that solution.
- pharke 5y agoWhy would it need to be 8 foot hovels? If you don't need to live in a dense urban area to get access to work, education, entertainment, novelty, social life, etc. etc. then humanity could spread out into more livable towns and cities or even villages and hamlets. Most of our transportation needs would be obviated reducing or eliminating the need for road centric planning. So much of our current urban plight is due to the fact that we need to be physically present, if we remove that burden with VR for all applicable pursuits we can go back to human scale life and keep all the benefits of high density living.