100 years of whatever this will be

Re:100 years of whatever this will be by hotpotamus on Thursday December 02, 2021 @01:52PM (#29420636)

I've heard the streetlight one before but I also like "when you're a hammer, then every problem is a nail". I hadn't thought of it this way though perhaps I had felt it. It feels like this is the dream for AR/VR - to create a software defined reality that you can escape to.

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Re:100 years of whatever this will be by akolbe on Thursday December 02, 2021 @03:25PM (#29421995)

Here is another version of that story, as told by Idries Shah. He attributes it to the Middle Eastern Mulla Nasrudin figure, and gives it a metaphysical interpretation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasreddin

A neighbor found Nasrudin down on his knees looking for something.

"What have you lost, Mulla?"

"My key," said Nasrudin.

After a few minutes of searching, the other man said, "Where did you drop it?"

"At home."

"Then why, for heaven's sake, are you looking here?"

"There is more light here."

According to Shah, the German clown Karl Valentin (1882–1948) used to act the story out on stage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Valentin

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Re:100 years of whatever this will be by mesozoic on Thursday December 02, 2021 @05:58PM (#29424039)

The new AR/VR reality will become as shitty as the current one and assuredly do it much faster.

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