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Old 10-24-2010, 06:16 AM   #3
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This is a neat site that kind of touches on the topic.

http://www.futuretimeline.net/index.htm
Yeah, I've seen that site before. It's an interesting combo of speculation and some research. It also seems to predict a lot of growth in virtual reality by 2020.

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But I think we are still at least a century away from a true Matrix like existence. When I saw the first Matrix, I said to my girlfriend, "One day this film may be looked at as some sort of prophecy, if Moore's law continues to track as accurately as it has."
When you say a true Matrix experience, do you mean like with robots that keep humans in vats with cables sticking into them as well, or do you just mean the fully realistic virtual reality bit? If you mean the VR bit I would think that we are much, much closer to it than a hundred years away.

I'm guessing that you don't really expect us to all be enslaved by our machines living full time in VR a hundred years from now though. At least not in ways that are involuntary.
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