[ExI] Second Life

[Natasha Vita-More]

Why are you disagreeing with Anna or me? Please read posts carefully before
responding and please respond to the post with which your content relates.

On another point, the near term is about nanorobots.  Read Freitas. 


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I'd disagree on two points. It's not that they're going to move there
permanently, it's that they're going to bring there and here together
permanently. Augmented reality.

This also addresses the point I was making in my long piece, that some
missed by thinking it was about the far future.

The near term isn't about nanobots. We can barely get them to switch
electrons and one of the latest discoveries was if you heat a buckytube just
right you can get electron migration which might be a power source. That's
pretty protean research.

On the flip side we've got working systems where people are controlling
games and prosthesis with their minds remotely. We've got brain scans that
are differentiating lies from truth, from one memory from another. There are
also programs where direct magnetic stimulation of the mind is used as crude
input. Aural signal injection by electrical stimulation has been around for
quite a few years.

We have a working model of the two basic concepts: pipe and tee.

wearable computing and I/O is where any near term Transhumanist wants to be
looking if they're seeking any sort of mind extension or augmentation.
Coupling these various forms of direct I/O with the sort of interfaces we're
using on tablets (getting rid of the keyboard mouse metaphor is
fundamental).

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311123520.htm

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/heidegger-tools/

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

http://open-rtms.sourceforge.net/

---- natasha at natasha.cc wrote: 
> Anna wrote:
> 
> > I agree that many will try the virtual realm but I highly doubt they  
> > will stay there permanently.  A game is still a game.
> 
> Well said Anna. No one really knows how we will get where we are 
> going.  That makes it intriguing.
> 
> Second-order cybernetics.

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