I’d rather have my tongue tied to a tailpipe and be dragged naked over a field of broken glass at 80 miles an hour.
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What Sci-fi aspect from TV or movies would you like to see happen in real life?
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You just described The Matrix.
Exactly! Deep down we all want to live in The Matrix, only a Matrix were we also have holodecks so we can have have more exotic adventures or sex anytime you want it. Basically we want to have a real world where you deal with real people some of the time but also a fantasy world part of the time as well and also be immune to any dangers that usually come from the real world people. A world were you can have your cake and eat it to. Also hope the robots don't go crazy while your living it up and they don't become self-aware and realize taking care of those sleeping meat sacks is a waste of their time.
Jason
No. No “we” don’t.
But anything you do in the real world can also be done in "The Matrix." Only now you don't have to ever worry about criminals or getting sick or ever being wrong about anything if your in the holodeck part of the Matrix because a person would basically be a God in a holodeck enviroment. But if you ever feel your ego is becoming to much you can then go and talk with other people for a more grounded perspective. You see in this world your fantasy world might become mainstream and it's the real world and real people that you go to for some escapism.
Jason
- a holodeck device is created
- half of the world start abandoning all aspects of their life (family money)
- the other half choose to stay outside
- they can’t find a wife or husband outside because everyone else is living their fanstasy life on the holodeck
- they die alone
- half of the world start abandoning all aspects of their life (family money)
- the other half choose to stay outside
- they can’t find a wife or husband outside because everyone else is living their fanstasy life on the holodeck
- they die alone
Oh there would be some humans who still want to do things the old fashioned way but it doesn't mean they would die. The Amish keep on going even though most of the world has accepted technology.
Jason
The same number that it took to get cars in real life banned...oh, wait a minute...
Okay, by this logic nobody should own any private seagoing vehicles because they'll get lost as soon as they float the things...as if there's no such thing as Navigation Courses for civilians. Why do you automatically assume everybody who wants to own his own spaceship would try to fly it without learning how to navigate in space? I get that general faith in Humanity is at an all-time low nowadays, but come on! We aren't all that dense!
And as for the tow truck thing, lots of people learn how to maintain and repair their cars so that if something goes wrong on the road they don't have to spend money on a tow truck. Similar knowledge about one's boat is doubly as important if your craft breaks down at sea. That said, we're not talking about unattainable knowledge. As with cars and boats, if space travel becomes so widespread that anybody can own his own spacecraft, it's almost a certainty that there will be instruction available to show the owners how to operate and maintain them properly. You learn to fly one, you buy the one you want, you get the Chilton manual or whatever for it, and you're good to go.
I share the late Stephen Hawking's feelings about A.I. : It could mean the end of humanity. Once robots/computers will know how to emulate all the fundamental activities of human beings, IE intellectual and manual. They'll do it cheaper and more efficiently than any human being possibly could. Then the super rich will have factories, shops, garages, commerces... entirely run by robots/computers... What will be left to the common man (IE man who's not a billionaire) to do? Well, nothing... What happens next is obvious...
Robots- wars. The only way to end it is wipe out the other side immediately
Launches nuke
Robot- Mission completed. Was that so difficult human? Oh....they’re all gone.
Robots wouldn’t have the ethical dilemma in the back of their head just the drive to win. Accomplish the task
Launches nuke
Robot- Mission completed. Was that so difficult human? Oh....they’re all gone.
Robots wouldn’t have the ethical dilemma in the back of their head just the drive to win. Accomplish the task
That is really terrifying.
The Difference between the car and speeder is would even be little kids as well since they seem to be so easy to operate. Plus I think cars are just seen as more secure than bikes of any design. I don't know if it's a fact but t I got assume people survive car accidents more than bikes.
As for the spaceship I think you are right but sooner or later someone would mess up and the idea that we got dead people floating in space would I think create a bad image in people's minds. Even if you take in account personal responsibility I am not sure it would sit right with people. These images of people dying of starvation or being sucked out into space and loved ones never knowing for sure would become to much I think for society.
Jason
Maybe at first but people would adjust. People would be nicer to each other when dealing with real people knowing that people don't have to deal with someone being a asshole to them anymore. Marriage as a concept I guess would end. But people would still fall in love. I'm guessing it would be more like a hippie type of lifestyle than anything else. Also I am guessing no more governments because who would need a government since everyone would be part of the same system. You would maybe have party planners or organizers or business owners but you wouldn't really need money anymore so I am guessing we would also be getting into Trek human territory as well. Only issue is mental illness. While most health concerns can be masked by the computer system so you don't feel any of the pain your real body is going through I am not sure how that would impact mental illness.
Jason
Yes but I do wonder how much that happens as opposed to people being lost to space. I think the amount of numbers of people being lost would impact. I do wonder what would be a worst way of dying. At the hands of humans or the cold unforgiven emptyness of space. What is worst. Not knowing how a loved one died but you know for sure they are dead or still having hope they might be alive even if they never return?
Jason
Jeez. I’m glad you don’t write for Star Trek
Episode one-
A new crew embarks on their first and last mission because they couldnt handle the cold reality of space...
Episode one-
A new crew embarks on their first and last mission because they couldnt handle the cold reality of space...
I'd rather have Personal Pods. Which are actually being developed right now.
(Side note: I don't know why the video looks like this, with the actual program just a little box and surrounded by some weird static image.
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Yeah, the idea of having a world where everybody can choose their own reality is terrifying. It's already going that way with the way news stories are personalized to your own preferences. Imagine your Facebook news feed, presented as literally indistinguishable from reality.
People who are right leaning get a reality with more likable white people, more violent minorities. People who are left leaning get a reality full of violent racist gun toting rednecks.
People have a hard enough time separating perceptions they are predisposed to agree with from reality when it ISN'T VR.
That's what it'd really be like. The emotional tilt of our Facebook feeds, in a way that looks and feels exactly like real life.
People who are right leaning get a reality with more likable white people, more violent minorities. People who are left leaning get a reality full of violent racist gun toting rednecks.
People have a hard enough time separating perceptions they are predisposed to agree with from reality when it ISN'T VR.
That's what it'd really be like. The emotional tilt of our Facebook feeds, in a way that looks and feels exactly like real life.
So is a convertible with the top down and keyless start. There's a remedy for that. You put the top up and close the windows. With the doors already locked, bingo! Little 7-year-old Mary Sue and her pet teddy bear won't be driving away with it any time soon.
There's a solution in Star Wars, too. They're called code cylinders. You know, those little pens that everybody with a vest pocket seems to have in there? You want to secure the speeder? Just rig the operating system so that it won't go unless you insert the right cylinder, or "keyed start." Once again, little Mary Sue is safe from her own impulses.
And air travel is supposed to be statistically safer than driving. That doesn't mean everybody abandons the automobile for the plane, and experienced riders don't care how much safer novices think cars are.
But cycle accidents are survivable, because there are helmets, pads and rugged clothing available to bikers. Again, you're assuming that it will never occur to anybody that riding a high-speed one person hovercraft might be dangerous, and that the people it occurs to won't find ways to make it safer.
Current society, maybe, because human spaceflight is rare, complex and expensive. Then again, so was driving at one point. And atmospheric flight. The more utilitarian an activity becomes the less affected we are by the consequences of that activity's mishaps. If NASA had failed to recover Apollo 13, the result might have been the end of American spaceflight, and we almost got that anyway after the Challenger and Columbia disasters. But what we're talking about here is Star Wars space flight (or Firefly, or the Expanse), where anybody can literally lay some duckets down for a ship and take off. In that environment, an accident in space, even a fatal one, will have about as much impact as a highway accident. You'll rubberneck if you drive past it, but if you hear about it on the news you'll go "Shame, that," and commute to work on the moon the next day in your T-16 like nothing happened.
Well I am mostly just having fun. Still I think these are things that would most certain have issues in real life that they don't have in fiction. Not that it wouldn't be fun to at least see them happen and somehow work out. I would also love to ride in a flying car and a spaceship.
Jason
By the time we get to a point where personal spaceships are a thing, I can pretty much guarantee you that every one will have a simple, easy to use navigation system. So the chances of people getting lost will probably be pretty much nil.
I could also see them setting up an equivalent to roads and highways that you will be able to follow to get from place to place without getting lost.
I doubt very, very much that they're going just leave people to figure things out on their own once they get up there.
If you think you're helping your case here, you're really not.
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