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2033:
The Real-Life Matrix, Video Games That Are Way Smarter Than You
According to computer smart guy Raymond Kurzweil, by 2029 the kind of computer power it'll take to equal a human brain will cost about $1. If trends continue as they have been, what we're calling supercomputers could be made as small as a speck of dust. You could paint them on your walls. Take the whole idea of distributed computing we talked about and multiply it several thousand times over. Computers become both ubiquitous and invisible, embedded in almost every surface you touch, with the whole atmosphere full of the data they're shooting back and forth to each other. More information than your parents absorbed in a lifetime could come firing into your brain in the blink of an eye. Combine that with patents Sony already has for ways to fire ultrasound pulses into the brain to create real-life sensory experiences, and you've got everything you need for five-senses virtual reality. And, you don't even need the jacks in the back of your skull.
We're assuming some kind of nuclear fusion or some other kind of vast energy source is out there by this point (all this flying data will require unimaginable amounts of electriciy) and that we're not living in mud huts and fighting radioactive mutants for food. But, if we're not, PS8 Home (or whatever they're calling the digital metaverse at that point) should finally exist as a new-and-improved version of reality you can touch and smell--only noticing the transition by the sudden absence of fat. Imagine it. In your lifetime, a magical world where you can actually meet that Burger King mascot, and smell him and feel his robes. As for the porn, well, is it even porn at that stage? It's pretty much just sex. You have sex with the porn lady and when you roll over, there's the Burger King guy to hand you a Whopper in person.
As for what sort of "games" or other entertainment would be offered there, it's possible that by then the gaming industry would have achieved its final goal: A device that makes you enjoy the experience no matter what they do. It's true that it would require electrodes inserted into the pleasure centers of the brain, but at that stage it would probably be considered cruel to not implant them in every newborn.
Electronic Arts could crank out a Shrek 9 game in a couple of weeks that features nothing more than Shrek standing in your front yard, quietly staring and occasionally farting. The whole time your brain will be telling you it's the most fun you've ever had.
You may be having so much fun in the game realm that you'll never want to leave. And that's OK, because this guy says that just down the road (around 2050) you'll be able to download your mind into the computer. Your body dies, you live on in the virtual world. Forever. Or, you know, as long as somebody is paying the bill.
What Will Suck About It
Or, possibly mankind will only be allowed to survive for the machines' amusement. Perhaps they'll force us to walk through hallways and shoot each other out of a desire for ironic revenge that we will have accidentally programmed into them somehow. It's all speculation at this point. Who can predict what will happen on that day when Spore has, generations later, culminated in systems powerful enough to create entire universes and even simulated minds to populate them. You would reach a point where the population of simulated beings in existence dwarfs the real ones. Even stranger, the simulated people born inside the simulation would have no way of knowing they were in a simulation. You may have heard that guy in The New York Times say that mathematically we are almost certainly living in one of those simulations now. But anyway, Spore looks pretty cool and we're looking forward to it.
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ur thinking of the movie SPEED. this is all pretty sweet - to think of it...but pretty scary.
LMFAO hahah Homer: I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to speed around a city, keeping its speed over fifty and if its speed dropped, it would explode! I think it was called ... "The Bus That Couldnt Slow Down."
w4c3y: There were also some movies on that same subject. People were plugged into this matrix, but they didn't know they were in a matrix. If they were pulled out of this matrix, they found it was matrix run by murderous machines, so they tried to destroy that matrix. I think it was called "The computer everyone was plugged into"
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fuckin wow
The future is limitless in potential and possibility.
I really liked this article. The future is pretty fucking scary.
What a boring future.
There is a book series by Jack L. Chalker about the reality of living in a computer and going through simulations and finding out you are just recycled every time you die.
Huzzah. The most pompously underwhelming article on Cracked has arrived.
PS3 Home sounds exactly like SecondLife, which is already here, and which has already proven that such simulated worlds will be dominated by porn and violence. And furries. No thanks.
They're pretty much dead on for the most part, with Psn being able to take a few more players without lag on its bigger games (MGS4 and Resistance). However, when it comes to the quality of the subscribers, it pushes the Psn into the winning spot.
lol indigo-dingo... say w/e u want bout 360 VS ps3, i have them both and they rock, but saying that ps3 online is better than 360 is just a lie...
Our reality is the product of a simulation in a reality that is the product of a simulation in a reality that is the product of a simulation in a reality that is the product of a simulation in a reality that is the product of a simulation in a reality that is the product of a simulation in a reality that is the product of a simulation in a reality that is the product of a simulation in a reality that is the product of a simulation in a reality that is the product of a simulation ....
I hate to say it and I'll probably get a knock at my door for it but Ted Kaczynski was right. The future is a world where mankind is totally enslaved by technology and doesn't even care. Fun, fun, fun. I hope I'm dead long before then.
If this article is correct, charging people to play online may be the smartest thing ever. if the computers want to overtake us, then we can just cancel our subcription!!
That one spammer has a point, viruses could seriously fuck shit up.
This article was... awesome. Funny, yet it had this special charge that a person feels through his body when he touches art. /gayness off
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After reading this, you might want to board up your windows and load up your shotgun.
According to the movies, your computer possesses near-magic powers.
Gamers are a vengeful god.
Someone oughta just shut the internet down.
The X-Men without the shitty one liners.
Come on, some were trying to be funny!
Not quite as useful as "look both ways."
First rule of Hollywood: Everything explodes.
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Kind of boring