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Posted on 05/27/2015 4:55:39 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Will check out the series tonite.
William Gibson’s works in the early eighties used his holo-decks which plugged into a direct bio-jack to explore the effects on individual and society.
VR, it’s a hell of a drug.
Nutshell: VR “helmets” give way to cool VR “John Lennon glasses.”
Corporations subsidize “free” VR for the masses as a direct advertising and propaganda portal into their brains.
Politicians enjoy manipulating the sheeple even more efficiently with sweet lies and promises made even prettier with VR.
People turn into VR junkies, sitting in corners without sleeping or eating, pretending to be famous movie stars. Marilyn Monroe, meet Clark Gable. In your very realistic fantasy world. Just stay there until you starve.
But isn’t VR like invention in life in that it can be used for good or evil.
It’s already a hell of a drug when it’s on a 4” screen. You can go to Disneyland and watch toddlers in strollers glued to tiny screens, oblivious of the artificial or natural wonder all around them.
Their developing brains grow inward into fantasy land. Very bad. Very bad.
Ditto for heroin. “Good or evil.”
But we don’t put heroin into water fountains in kindergartens, for a reason.
I just Bing image searched “child with ipad.” Give this page a glance.
They won’t know how to catch a ball or light a fire, but they will know 467 levels of every game by age five. They won’t know how to navigate across a city without a helpful female voice directing them turn-by-turn. It’s already happening. Virtual idiots, in the natural world.
And if the power goes out or the internet goes down? What good will knowing the 467 levels of ever (disappeared) game do them, when they can’t navigate on their own, or light a fire, etc?
True. But when considering all drugs or even opiates...some have been used for good as medicine and some of course for evil.
But we keep the addictive drugs locked up. We don’t put them into the candy bowls at kindergarten.
But I also see a huge potential in visualizing things invisible to the human eye. In biotech research for example or brain surgery or even in mathematics and physics.
It's like kids and the internet. There's no way a child (particularly a little boy) should be exposed to porn.
That said, I can imagine VR could have a great impact on education if done right.
Brainstorm with Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_104
Like I said ... that one scene impacted me
I can't stop technology, nor do I want to ... but THAT one seems dangerous to me
We're being led out of our safe homes into a wilderness full of evil (imo)
I speak as an American with the knowledge of my fabric to those that can understand the efforts to unravel our flag and blanket
Free LSD could be a great boon to mental health “if done right.”
My money is on “done wrong.”
Go to any amusement park and watch three-year-old toddlers, who should be walking and running and interacting, being pushed in strollers while glued to tiny screens. They pitch a FIT if mom tries to take the electronic heroin neural injector away for even a moment.
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As Travis says, we don’t put crack cocaine or meth in school lunches.
Economics determines the daily dosage available to addicts. Several lab studies revealed that monkeys would trip the lever that released cocaine, iirc, non-stop even though food was available by operating another lever. They did this until they were on the verge of death.
Now imagine the VR parents use as a baby sitter. First the TV, then tapes and DVDs which all have stopping points, the show ends, But games can go on forever.
Think about the opium dens of China being brought into every household. Hell, there are enough horror stories of adult addicts neglecting their own children, if not selling them to others to obtain drugs in chasing the dragon.
Now VR helmets or glasses offer to totally shut out the real world making whatever desired fantasy preferable to reality. Just try taking it away.
the electronic heroin neural injector
That is reductio ad absurdum. We don't use that logic to prevent the development of new antidepressants and painkillers/anasthesias.
That said, I will agree that there is a huge potential for abuse and that will make this development potentially quite dangerous.
Unfortunately, stopping or reversing the development of such products (as VR) will be like holding back the tide.
Do you consume human blood and keep night hours??? ;-)
Hey, that knowledge will come in handy when the dragons and wizards invade Illinois...
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