Re:One year at Y Combinator Research
by jp_sc on Saturday May 27, 2017 @09:51AM
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It's a common theme in the last decade of science fiction.
In "The Unincorporated Man" (set 300 years in the future) the VR technology interfaced directly with the brain, so it was indistinguishable from reality. That made it extremely addictive and had nearly destroyed human civilization.
But I don't think anything less immersive, even something like OASIS from "Ready Player One" would be dangerous, or would make us to not care about the "real" world.
In "The Unincorporated Man" (set 300 years in the future) the VR technology interfaced directly with the brain, so it was indistinguishable from reality. That made it extremely addictive and had nearly destroyed human civilization.
But I don't think anything less immersive, even something like OASIS from "Ready Player One" would be dangerous, or would make us to not care about the "real" world.