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Torplexed · 11-22-09, 06:32 PM

Considering how addictive some of these online gaming communities are you do wonder how many people will eventually abandon their mundane and boring real lives to remain jacked into a holodeck 24/7. Oops! The dog starved to death and the car was repossessed? Sorry I was busy fighting off a horde of Gemgoblins on Minas IV.

Sailor Steve · 11-22-09, 08:09 PM

Mookie, thanks for turning up that picture.

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Originally Posted by Torplexed

Considering how addictive some of these online gaming communities are you do wonder how many people will eventually abandon their mundane and boring real lives to remain jacked into a holodeck 24/7. Oops! The dog starved to death and the car was repossessed? Sorry I was busy fighting off a horde of Gemgoblins on Minas IV.

Science fiction writer Larry Niven wrote several short stories centered around users of what he called the 'Droud'. The thing plugged into the wall, went through a small voltage converter and then jacked directly into the pleasure center of the brain. Extreme addicts just plugged in and then starved to death, and never even knew it was happening.

Platapus · 11-22-09, 08:23 PM

In 1945 some nut case named Arthur Charles Clarke wrote some drivel about putting a relay "satellite" in "geosynchronous" "orbit" that will help long distance communications.

July 26, 1963, Syncom was launched on a Delta B.

So you never can tell about those wacky dreams.....

August · 11-22-09, 09:11 PM

Too much energy to create mass, even temporarily.

I'm thinking it'll be an implant or something that produces controllable hallucinations.

Platapus · 11-22-09, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by August

Too much energy to create mass, even temporarily.

I'm thinking it'll be an implant or something that produces controllable hallucinations.

I agree. Why try to create matter when you can create the perception of matter

August · 11-22-09, 10:06 PM

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I agree. Why try to create matter when you can create the perception of matter

A lot easier on the body that interacts with this alternative reality as well.

These things could bring a whole new quality of life to the aged and infirm.

SgtPotato · 11-23-09, 12:08 AM

Are we talking about Star Trek holographic thing? That would be cool.

11-22-09, 08:23 PM	#3
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,371 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	In 1945 some nut case named Arthur Charles Clarke wrote some drivel about putting a relay "satellite" in "geosynchronous" "orbit" that will help long distance communications. July 26, 1963, Syncom was launched on a Delta B. So you never can tell about those wacky dreams..... __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

11-22-09, 09:11 PM	#4
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,200 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Too much energy to create mass, even temporarily. I'm thinking it'll be an implant or something that produces controllable hallucinations. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

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SgtPotato Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: In your ocean, sinking your ships Posts: 721 Downloads: 96 Uploads: 0	Are we talking about Star Trek holographic thing? That would be cool. __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

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11-22-09, 06:32 PM	#1
Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Considering how addictive some of these online gaming communities are you do wonder how many people will eventually abandon their mundane and boring real lives to remain jacked into a holodeck 24/7. Oops! The dog starved to death and the car was repossessed? Sorry I was busy fighting off a horde of Gemgoblins on Minas IV.