Cloud kills the console star?

[TarJak]

Welcome to the world online.

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by TarJak

Welcome to the world online.

Actually welcome to the world in general

[Skybird]

Existence is online. The world is just a simulation.

[Respenus]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Existence is online. The world is just a simulation.

Please don't do that Sky. It sent shivers down my spine. It is already difficult for our modern world to separate one from the other. If this continues and your statement becomes reality, it will be high time we end it all. Now, I'm not a technophobe, I'll be the first one to welcome the technological singularity and promote transhumanism, yet the step from the real to the virtual might just be the threshold (straw) that will break the proverbial camels back. We are still far from being capable of transferring our minds (reasons) to a central hard-drive and until we do, if ever (although it might not be a bad idea concerning how many brilliant minds are lost to silly things like death), to have a physical body, yet a virtual mind could, in our inability to examine future possibilities and act rationally (do not read pragmatically), turn out to be our final undoing.

[ajrimmer42]

♫ Video killed the radio star, video killed the radio star...

Damn you Skybird!

Hasn't something like this been available for a while?

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Originally Posted by ajrimmer42

♫ Video killed the radio star, video killed the radio star...

Damn you Skybird!

I was thinking that too

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by ajrimmer42

♫ Video killed the radio star, video killed the radio star...

Damn you Skybird!

Hasn't something like this been available for a while?

Right that I had on mind!

Originally Posted by Respenus

Please don't do that Sky. It sent shivers down my spine. It is already difficult for our modern world to separate one from the other. If this continues and your statement becomes reality, it will be high time we end it all. Now, I'm not a technophobe, I'll be the first one to welcome the technological singularity and promote transhumanism, yet the step from the real to the virtual might just be the threshold (straw) that will break the proverbial camels back. We are still far from being capable of transferring our minds (reasons) to a central hard-drive and until we do, if ever (although it might not be a bad idea concerning how many brilliant minds are lost to silly things like death), to have a physical body, yet a virtual mind could, in our inability to examine future possibilities and act rationally (do not read pragmatically), turn out to be our final undoing.

In the end, all reality is inside our heads only, we cannot be sure of anything being like our senses seem tell us it is. We do not find reality - we create it every single moment in our minds. In the end it's all just electrons racing up and down the neural highways. And of the real nature of both we cannot be sure, too.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welt_am_Draht

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick

[Diopos]

Originally Posted by Skybird

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In the end it's all just electrons racing up and down the neural highways. ...

Actually not even electrons, more like fluctuations of electromagnetic "density"... and it gets weirder and much more abstract on the way "down" ( to quantum mechanical scales).

The next god will have a PhD on quantum enginnering ...
a biiiiig computer... and DRM issues!

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by CCIP

Actually welcome to the world in general

True that.

[krashkart]

OnLive will be available for a monthly rental fee of $14.95 (£9.99) for subscribers to then buy or rent games over the internet.

They want more money, on top of the monthly fee, for rentals or full purchase? I think it's a ripoff.

[NeonSamurai]

Not now, not ever. I didn't like this idea back when it started under the server/workstation concept for businesses.