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"It’s 2039, and Your Beloved Books Are Dead"
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 12:49 pm
by Dexter
This sounds plausible, virtual reality replacing books once it's good enough
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/opin ... ories.html
Re: "It’s 2039, and Your Beloved Books Are Dead"
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 8:58 pm
by DWill
Now I feel even more like a dinosaur.
Re: "It’s 2039, and Your Beloved Books Are Dead"
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 9:37 pm
by LanDroid
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...
Re: "It’s 2039, and Your Beloved Books Are Dead"
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 9:30 pm
by KindaSkolarly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogates
A movie that touches on this topic. I enjoyed it.
Re: "It’s 2039, and Your Beloved Books Are Dead"
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 12:14 pm
by LanDroid
^ Looks interesting, added it to my viewing list...
Re: "It’s 2039, and Your Beloved Books Are Dead"
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 9:38 pm
by DB Roy
An article of the future concerning the death of the printed word written with printed words??
Re: "It’s 2039, and Your Beloved Books Are Dead"
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2019 5:29 am
by Robert Tulip
"more grimly banal than Bradbury could ever have imagined"
We should discuss
Fahrenheit 451.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
Re: "It’s 2039, and Your Beloved Books Are Dead"
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2019 1:36 pm
by DWill
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.