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Re: "It’s 2039, and Your Beloved Books Are Dead"
It could go much farther than that. I remember reading an interview with Jaron Lanier a long time ago where he extrapolated the pace of artificial reality far into the future. He estimated that eventually wealthy people who don't need to work would spend most of their lives in virtual reality, rarely exiting to real life...
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Re: "It’s 2039, and Your Beloved Books Are Dead"
Of course, it's not just storytelling that's done in print. We get our information through that mode, or we have traditionally. We can also get information via podcasts and documentaries, so what the next phase in VR has in store probably is enhancement of how information reaches our senses. We'll be immersed in the report on California wildfires in ways we can't imagine, I suppose. We'll feel what it's like to be locked up at the southern border. And it doesn't sound like necessarily a good thing, psychically, to have all that coming at us. But it will probably mean that words in print will seem hopelessly archaic.
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