[ExI] Second Life

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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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