Virtual is Real | Second Life Not Second
Posted in 3D Social Networks, Attention, Kwisatz Haderach, Social Networks, Video Games, Virtual Reality by wayne.porter on February 29th, 2008 Well only for a few perhaps, and we are far from it, but let’s look to the future through the eye’s of a futurist…
Virtual reality and reality to merge says Ray Kurzweil.
“Computers the size of blood cells will create fully immersive virtual realities by 2033,” leading inventor Ray Kurzweil has predicted. If so this sucks for me. I am to late. Death = phail.
“Today you can put a pea-sized computer inside your brain, if you have Parkinson’s disease and want to replace the biological neurons that were destroyed by the disease.”
He said a billion-fold increase in computing performance and capability over the next 25 years coupled with the 100,000 fold shrinking, would lead to “blood cell-size devices… that can go inside our bodies and keep us healthy and inside our brain and expand our intelligence”.
He said the blood cell computers would be able to “produce full immersion virtual reality from inside the nervous system”. People have more freedom in virtual worlds. He said the games industry had to be thinking about the future development of computing now.
“The games industry fits in well with the acceleration of progress; in no other industry do you feel that more than games.” Mr Kurzweil, who invented the flat bed scanner and text-to-speech synthesis, said the virtual world was a misnomer.
“In virtual worlds we do real romance, real learning, real business. Virtual reality is real reality.”
He added: “Games are the cutting edge of what is happening - we are going to spend more of our time in virtual reality environments. “Fully emergent games is really where we want to go. We will do most of our learning through these massively parallel interactions.”
“Play is how we principally learn and principally create,” he said.
Mergers Take Time
The merger is already occurring…in very small steps. Here we get a glimpse of conversation on discordant issues. Avatar to Avatar or human to avatar- anyway you want to slice it.
…often cannot be measured, let alone seen. We can only measure some of the after images.
Many messages are never heard because they do not rebound back or recurse to the media in a plain or readable format…nor can the impact be measured accurately due to hidden impediments. No other commentary from me. This is a hidden conversation made open. Anonymity assured. Tiny alterations made. You normally would never hear any of it. You would only see the after images… I am not going to make any comment on what it means. e.g. FIC.
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Ray also tells us starting now, our life expectancy will go up by one year EVERY year, so no worries there
I’ve been debating something along these lines over the last 2 months from a different angle. Ray’s prediction is very much a technical approach. I found a more actual debate in a great dutch blogging article about the perception of the word ‘Virtual’.
The (mainstream marketing blog) article describes how the big media often depicts ‘Virtual’ along the lines of ‘fake’ - a Virtual Life is a fake life, and how this is still the idea ‘the masses’ are currently stuck with. Virtual = Not Real = Fake = therefore not/hardly worth mentioning or debating.
Virtual Conversations, Virtual Banking, Virtual Anything - The question Ray seems to answer is when are the masses going to wake up and see all the world virtual means is a digital translation of thoughts and actions rather than a physical translation of the very same ideas. If it takes a fully immersed virtual experience to do so, it will probably be around 2033 - I’m hoping it will be sooner.
i disagree. virtual is just that-virtual. no matter how much it may seem, it is not real. experiencing real life means stepping out into it and really using your 5 senses on the real deal..be it positive or negative. moderate virtualism has its points and can be fun no doubt-but people are missing out on real life-and the most simplest basic parts of it.
My sister Kathy is why it will take until 2033 Digado.
Kathy reality is negotiated and nothing is “real”. Virtual is not “fake”. It is a translation. See Digado’s wisdom above.
-wayne
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