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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
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.
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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Yes, I meant a virtual existence indistinguishable from the real world.... unless of course you are Neo...lol. But a similar scenario to that of The Matrix, could certainly be a possibility if technology somehow runs away, and renders us obsolete.
To get to that point of indistinguishable AI, where you could simply immerse yourself into a simulated reality, we would have to get past the limitations of engineering at the nanoscale to construct an artificial neural net, which we are not even close to mastering yet. You would probably have to master picotechnology to be able to construct artificial brain cells at the atomic level.
Off topic.... why do I keep seeing pictures of rabbits everywhere?