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> I'm currently typing this blog post in a floating window in the middle of snow-covered Yosemite. I am a floating body manifested into the transcendental Tim C
by nunez 3y ago
> I'm currently typing this blog post in a floating window in the middle of snow-covered Yosemite. I am a floating body manifested into the transcendental Tim Cook matrix. I look into the sky and follow the soft clouds as they pass overhead. They slowly part, revealing Steve Jobs' smiling face watching over me from the heavens above. I am merely one more thing.
god damn; this is the most dystopian shit i've read in a while.
"real" outside isn't good enough to work in, so i'll pay $3500 to work in a fake outside in my own house and wear that headset while i'm in real outside to tailor this outside to my preferences.
interpreted another way: "real" outside is nice, but everything costs more money than i want to spend, so i'll spend $3500 once (or $1500 to buy the 1G headset) to create infinite "outsides" that i don't have to spend more money on
like, are we actually okay with this???
this might be me showing my age (late 30s) but i'm actually scared of this technology becoming mainstream and destroying whatever semblance of society we have left.
exmaple: why should people go to bars when they can just strap on a vision pro and put themselves in a bar that's perfect for them while drinking their own supply in their own home?
if that takes off, then anyone who actually likes going to real bars (me, for ex.) are basically forced into the virtual bars since real bars as a whole won't be economically viable anymore.
extended out further, walkable cities won't be necessary since everyone will be interacting through these kinds of headsets in their home, self-driving cars will be the only kinds of cars that are legal to drive, and most businesses would have moved into the metaverse since that's where the money is
i'm basically afraid of Ready Player One becoming real
- garbagewoman 3y agoI think the writer might have been exaggerating for comic effect. It’s a literary technique
- nunez 3y agoi know, but some people are actually doing this with their AVPs (less Tim Apple smiling on them in approval for buying more Apple kit)
- wkat4242 3y agoNah. People will still go to bars. We couldn't wait to be done with the COVID restrictions and I'm still making up for all the lost time, long nights where I roll onto the street at 6am when the last club closes lol. Also don't forget a motive is to meet people and hook up. That won't be as good virtually as in real life for a long time.
- nunez 3y agoThe difference between COVID and this is that you can put this device on and be wherever you want to be while, theoretically, "interacting" with whoever you want.
- leetharris 3y agoWhile I definitely understand and even partially agree with you, there's something partially elitist in the attitude of, "just go do it IRL." This tech will eventually be available to most people on the planet in the same way smartphones are. But vacations to Yosemite likely won't be. And that's not counting doing stuff like standing on Mars or traveling to a fantasy world. I have an AVP and it is cool as hell, but I enjoy taking it off when I'm done with the thing I'm doing. I think most people like IRL. I don't think having more options for experiences is a bad thing.
- lm28469 3y agoNot going to Yosemite is OK, life isn't about consuming as much as you can
- lawgimenez 3y agoJust like the lazy humans in Wall-E.
- lm28469 3y ago> this might be me showing my age (late 30s) Mid 20s here and I'm absolutely scared about how people cheer and want these gadgets. Not too far from a black mirror episode, just in slow motion