[ExI] Spaceflight: The only valid case for waiting

[Mike Dougherty]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 4:48 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I have been an internet evangelist since the very very beginning, but
> I never considered the internet as a replacement for the real world. A
> very useful complement yes, but a replacement no. Not the same thing.
> I see going back to the Moon as going back to the real world. Reality,
> not videogames.
>

I get your point, but you are dismissing a large chunk of humanity as
"video games"

Instead of VR, let's consider TV.  It's mostly just staring blankly for
hours on end,  but we've spent megabucks (mega megabucks) and millenia of
person-hours on this huge waste of attention. We can't honestly examine
who/what/how we are without acknowledging that this technology is both
shaped by us and also shapes us.

I expect VR will be a logical extension of what TV has been for 50+ years,
and perhaps what technology of "books" have been since the printing press
made them available to the masses.

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