What Sci-fi aspect from TV or movies would you like to see happen in real life?

[Jayson1]

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.

I was thinking of people being plugged in 24/7. That means it doesn't matter if you have terrible people also inside because they couldn't hurt anyone. What kind of world they create in their own personal holodeck is their business. It won't effect anyone else because the program would be created with means of stopping violence.
I also think though this would be stuff only the first group of people would deal with. Eventually society would change so much that the factors that create racism and violence would almost be erased. Creating a world were the main issues of this society would be those dealing with questions of individual rights and privacy and even questions as to what it means to be alive. Still a upgrade over the present day because you wouldn't have to worry about war,gun shootings,sexual crimes etc.
I could for example see a issue rising up about dupulicating lost loved ones. Something that people would actually discuss with each other before a person dies so it wouldn't be as glaring as someone bringing their dead parent back to life on a wim. Also the ability to alter yourself. If you can mask physical pain it means you could alter your emotions on a dime. Think your getting angry. Just trigger something and you get a increase in endorphins. Maybe most people would go through life as if they are constantly high.

Jason

 

[Admiral2]

I'd rather have Personal Pods. Which are actually being developed right now.

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(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. )

It's one of the tricks used to fool Youtube's enforcement bots so that the poster doesn't get nailed for infringement.

 

[Samurai8472]

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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.

Exactly there will be routes and navigational courses to get to point “A” and “B”

 

[Discofan]

Immortality! I'd really like that!

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Do you really want a world though where everybody is plugged into their own paradise and none of it is real?

Truth is important, control of one's own reality is important. People might be happy, but this is a world where a few powerful people would be in control and control reality for everyone. Imagine the wrong person coming into control of that system. Somebody whose goal it is to play one group of people against another group of people, people like current politicians.

Would they really be unable to hurt each other? AI is only as trustworthy as the humans who programmed it. And the humans who programmed it would almost certainly feel one group of humans is more deserving of happiness and power than others.

 

[Jayson1]

Do you really want a world though where everybody is plugged into their own paradise and none of it is real?

Truth is important, control of one's own reality is important. People might be happy, but this is a world where a few powerful people would be in control and control reality for everyone. Imagine the wrong person coming into control of that system. Somebody whose goal it is to play one group of people against another group of people, people like current politicians.

Would they really be unable to hurt each other? AI is only as trustworthy as the humans who programmed it. And the humans who programmed it would almost certainly feel one group of humans is more deserving of happiness and power than others.

I don't know if I would want it. A lot would depend on the details such as whether or not a select group of people would control it like you suggest. Tempted might be a better word. Except for the Holodeck. I think everyone wants a holodeck for sure. Even a Holodeck that is only half of as good as the ones in Trek would be desired.
As for the AI's I was also going off the idea they wouldn't be self aware. Just advanced enough to keep the machines up and running. The real risk would be from the humans who stay outside and don't join in. I think I would be even more afraid of these humans outside of the system doing who knows what than the robots but then again those fears can be erased by simply pushing the needed button for the right mind altering drug. Having the option to leave though would be very important. No mind tricks by a outside force like in "The Matrix." Any mental alterations would be done by yourself which when I type this makes me think of the Space Whale carrying Britian around from "Doctor Who." so everything comes with a question mark.

Jason

 

[Discofan]

I'd really like a world where my lifespan would be a lot longer than it is here and now.

 

[Leviathan]

A meritocracy.