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Transhumanism and Augmented Reality – A brave new augmented world

by brna on 10/28/20, 6:24 PM with 13 comments

  • by r34 on 10/28/20, 7:50 PM

    I don't think that "immersive experiences" are going to play huge part in our lives. The other side of "immersion" is escapism from the real world, which is the most complex RPG, so "immersion" would be rather likely to be absorbed by current economical mechanisms to deepen that escapism. Information access is so trivial even with current technologies, that it's not something that makes anybody high (as with everything: what makes one high is acceleration, not speed, so new technologies are charming at the beginning, than they are absorbed as habits).
  • by Koshkin on 10/28/20, 9:27 PM

    John C. Wright had much to say about all this in The Golden Age.
  • by SapporoChris on 10/28/20, 9:40 PM

    Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/903/