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Affectionate-Grand99 t1_iu5i0e5 wrote

As much as I love car games, I don’t want companies to have that much control over us; if we keep going all in on recreation and stuff like gaming, I doubt we’ll be motivated to do much else. The more we game the less (personal opinion) we innovate. I don’t want to get stuck in a loop of recreation, even if it does sound fun.

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Test19s OP t1_iu5ikve wrote

I’m concerned about the impacts it’ll have on social skills when your car, robot companion, and gaming platform are all the same thing.

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TerpenesByMS t1_iu63hl3 wrote

This is the direction we are headed, though.

In a few generations, people will be willingly plugging themselves into "the matrix" in order to save money on resources.

I want to be wrong, but given our increasing addiction to digital infotainment and the reasons behind it this is the logical conclusion.

Think about it: you log in to a frigging dreamland that is more convincing and thrilling than reality could ever hope to be, thanks to top-notch brain-computer interface and digital consciousness modeling. The option to simply never log back out would be appealing to many, especially if system safety and uptime had great track records. We could always spin up humanoid robots to pilot, as in Surrogates.

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Test19s OP t1_iu64bjt wrote

The universe as we know it simply isn’t built to allow for real adventure, and with resource scarcity becoming a thing again it probably makes sense to use a combination of VR/AR and robots to minimize strain on food / energy / water / raw materials.

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AdmiralKurita t1_iu6x9a1 wrote

Ash Ketchum also didn't have to go school and he lived off of government services, since he can sleep at Pokemon centers and get food there. I guess that allowed him to live a life of adventure.

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Affectionate-Grand99 t1_iu5isbf wrote

Yeah, I hope it’s put under control through national government and whatnot

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Test19s OP t1_iu5lqve wrote

Can’t throw a rock in this place without hitting a Transformers protagonist.

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