It's pretty interesting. Palm V, laptop, cell phone, and now the Experience Learning System.
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I get the impression this isn't VR requiring helmets or whatever. But designed as an actual interactive simulation. Nowhere near the realism of a Star Trek hologram, but a start none-the-less. In ten years we'll have holographic marines fighting wars! Until they become sentient and kill us all.
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Does anyone have details on the specific nature of the system. I mean, it's hardly photons confined within a force field. Some kind of screen projection perhaps?
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And all over the globe, sci-fi fans are leaping to the air, then talking to their life-size cut-out of Marina Sirtis: "Don't worry Marina, soon I won't have to talk to any of those nasty 'real-life' people again. It'll be just you and me in digital heaven. Oooh".
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Would you? Step out willingly, from a happy land where EVERYTHING you ever wanted was yours for the asking, into a place where nitwits kill each other over who has a right to stand on what ground?
Or would you retreat into a computerized harem on board your very own Starship, with the world's best food served fresh three times a day, the perfect climate, and all the time in the world?
Holodecks and food replicators. That's the way the world ends. Not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with billions of squelching sounds and soft moans behind billions of closed doors.
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Of course, it could end up like Better Than Life, where no one likes the perfect world because they know that none of it could ever happen to them in real life, thus ruining the experience.
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Or like the nastier version of Better Than Life (from the books), where no-one actually knows that they're in a simulation, until Rimmer ends up in a prostitutes costume and kills lots of people by riding a motorcycle down a market. Er, or something.
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Yes, 'the Matrix', what an insanely original movie that was...*sigh*...
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