Argikeraunos t1_j1byj38 wrote on December 23, 2022 at 4:10 AM

>We will enter multiverses inside our own minds. The video games of the future are lucid dreaming online 3.0. Our nervous system will wirelessly link with a super computer via AR contacts and swarms of nanobots that translate, transfer, and synchronize our consciousness.

Gee sounds great.

snash222 t1_j1bzgdz wrote on December 23, 2022 at 4:19 AM

The nineties are going to make the seventies look like the fifties.

bsinbsinbs t1_j1bzqcz wrote on December 23, 2022 at 4:21 AM

That what drugs are for.

Erriis t1_j1c5iyt wrote on December 23, 2022 at 5:15 AM

Ehh, it sounds really cool, but current computing will probably never affordably emulate human experiences.

Light-based monitor displays and VR are probably the closest we’re gonna get, and with the apparent trouble people have adding legs to VR, I don’t see a Neuralink-fueled dystopia emerging soon.

Argikeraunos t1_j1de95u wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:01 PM

I'm being sarcastic, this sounds like an unholy nightmare

Erriis t1_j1depxq wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:05 PM

Ehh, compared to real life, I don’t see how it would suck that badly on paper.

The issue is that brain augmentation is unequivocally guaranteed to cause complications