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Seen as this is "the future of gaming" chat forum and very little talk about the topic goes on in here, I thought that I would write a little about what I see lies in store for us.
I often wonder where gaming will eventually lead us. All that I can imagine is that graphics and the way that we interface with the computer will eventually get so good that everything looks and feels like it is real! It could even get to a point where it is hard to distinguish between what is a game and what is reality. (Memories of The Matrix come flooding back.) I suppose it would be like living in two different worlds, one where all the rules can be broken and one where they cannot!
Could such an advance in gaming perhaps lead to an increase in crime as people confuse the two worlds? You can see the Headlines now! "CAR THEFT ON THE INCREASE AFTER RELEASE OF GTA 34!" Imagine people getting so immersed in their games that they would forget that such trivial things in the game world, such as walking through walls and jumping from massive heights, could not be done in the real world. Think of the consequences that such an influx in the amount of accidents would have on the NHS! (As if it werent bad enough already!)
There may even be a point where people are punished using a virtual gaming world. Suppose instead of having prisons, people were just connected to a computer and left to live in a virtual prison for however long there sentence was. They bodies would have to be fed from drips in the real world but the reduced cost of housing the prisoners and having to employ guards to keep them in line would save the government millions. The prisoners could riot all they wanted but it wouldnt get them anywhere!
Instead of going on a cruise around the world you could just buy a (no doubt expensive!) world holiday program and go where you pleased without the discomforts of "the real world." Imagine being able to go on holiday and not have to worry about your safety or getting food poisoning! You could even control the temperature of your trip! Your only concern would be that of your computer getting a virus, however you would be able to buy a "Norton Holiday Anti-virus Kit!"
Unemployment would soar with computers taking over ordinary peoples jobs such as that of a prison guard, travel guide, or cruise ship captain. The highest paid jobs would be those of computer programmers, who would charge millions of pounds an hour for there services!
The possibilities are literally endless! What does everyone think? Are our days numbered due to our craving for entertainment? Will the rise in unemployment, along with the increase in crime and accidents destroy society as we know it?
:)
Phil
I often wonder where gaming will eventually lead us. All that I can imagine is that graphics and the way that we interface with the computer will eventually get so good that everything looks and feels like it is real! It could even get to a point where it is hard to distinguish between what is a game and what is reality. (Memories of The Matrix come flooding back.) I suppose it would be like living in two different worlds, one where all the rules can be broken and one where they cannot!
Could such an advance in gaming perhaps lead to an increase in crime as people confuse the two worlds? You can see the Headlines now! "CAR THEFT ON THE INCREASE AFTER RELEASE OF GTA 34!" Imagine people getting so immersed in their games that they would forget that such trivial things in the game world, such as walking through walls and jumping from massive heights, could not be done in the real world. Think of the consequences that such an influx in the amount of accidents would have on the NHS! (As if it werent bad enough already!)
There may even be a point where people are punished using a virtual gaming world. Suppose instead of having prisons, people were just connected to a computer and left to live in a virtual prison for however long there sentence was. They bodies would have to be fed from drips in the real world but the reduced cost of housing the prisoners and having to employ guards to keep them in line would save the government millions. The prisoners could riot all they wanted but it wouldnt get them anywhere!
Instead of going on a cruise around the world you could just buy a (no doubt expensive!) world holiday program and go where you pleased without the discomforts of "the real world." Imagine being able to go on holiday and not have to worry about your safety or getting food poisoning! You could even control the temperature of your trip! Your only concern would be that of your computer getting a virus, however you would be able to buy a "Norton Holiday Anti-virus Kit!"
Unemployment would soar with computers taking over ordinary peoples jobs such as that of a prison guard, travel guide, or cruise ship captain. The highest paid jobs would be those of computer programmers, who would charge millions of pounds an hour for there services!
The possibilities are literally endless! What does everyone think? Are our days numbered due to our craving for entertainment? Will the rise in unemployment, along with the increase in crime and accidents destroy society as we know it?
:)
Phil
I wouldn't cry if nobody reads your posts.
Bet you didn't even realised I posted one the other day! It shot straight to the bottom of the list with no replies.
Bet you didn't even realised I posted one the other day! It shot straight to the bottom of the list with no replies.
all part of the service.
If you want to be overly pessimistic about it, then look at it this way:
Eventually, the machines we create will take up jobs at a faster rate than we can create them, leading to mass unemployment, and eventually we will have to adopt an unemplyed society. A whole continent of unemployed people, the few jobs left going to research and development, along with a few maintenance jobs. The economy will have to recover from a sustained period of hyper-deflation as the domestic lifestyle economy crashes.
New legislation will have to be created that introduces fake jobs - meager, repetitive and pointless jobs that the government pays people to to do, resembling the workhouses of centuries ago. Further legislation will be created to encourage companies to also create fake jobs, being slapped with minimum employment legislation based on revenue sales or something similar.
Eventually however, the people will grow to resent being made to work for the sake of work, without providing any kind of real product or service, and will pressure the government to abolish job faking. Replacing work with corporate taxes, which are then distributed equally to the people.
The people, with fixed income from the government, then laze around soaking up whatever leisure activities they can afford on the governments wage. After a few years of this however, people become bored, and eventually go back to fake jobs, without pay, as just a pastime.
So, the future sees us working pointless jobs for no money, despite the fact we have a fixed income and can do what we please.
Oh how humanity is killing itself.
IB
Eventually, the machines we create will take up jobs at a faster rate than we can create them, leading to mass unemployment, and eventually we will have to adopt an unemplyed society. A whole continent of unemployed people, the few jobs left going to research and development, along with a few maintenance jobs. The economy will have to recover from a sustained period of hyper-deflation as the domestic lifestyle economy crashes.
New legislation will have to be created that introduces fake jobs - meager, repetitive and pointless jobs that the government pays people to to do, resembling the workhouses of centuries ago. Further legislation will be created to encourage companies to also create fake jobs, being slapped with minimum employment legislation based on revenue sales or something similar.
Eventually however, the people will grow to resent being made to work for the sake of work, without providing any kind of real product or service, and will pressure the government to abolish job faking. Replacing work with corporate taxes, which are then distributed equally to the people.
The people, with fixed income from the government, then laze around soaking up whatever leisure activities they can afford on the governments wage. After a few years of this however, people become bored, and eventually go back to fake jobs, without pay, as just a pastime.
So, the future sees us working pointless jobs for no money, despite the fact we have a fixed income and can do what we please.
Oh how humanity is killing itself.
IB
Seen as this is "the future of gaming" chat forum and very little talk about the topic goes on in here, I thought that I would write a little about what I see lies in store for us.
I often wonder where gaming will eventually lead us. All that I can imagine is that graphics and the way that we interface with the computer will eventually get so good that everything looks and feels like it is real! It could even get to a point where it is hard to distinguish between what is a game and what is reality. (Memories of The Matrix come flooding back.) I suppose it would be like living in two different worlds, one where all the rules can be broken and one where they cannot!
Could such an advance in gaming perhaps lead to an increase in crime as people confuse the two worlds? You can see the Headlines now! "CAR THEFT ON THE INCREASE AFTER RELEASE OF GTA 34!" Imagine people getting so immersed in their games that they would forget that such trivial things in the game world, such as walking through walls and jumping from massive heights, could not be done in the real world. Think of the consequences that such an influx in the amount of accidents would have on the NHS! (As if it werent bad enough already!)
There may even be a point where people are punished using a virtual gaming world. Suppose instead of having prisons, people were just connected to a computer and left to live in a virtual prison for however long there sentence was. They bodies would have to be fed from drips in the real world but the reduced cost of housing the prisoners and having to employ guards to keep them in line would save the government millions. The prisoners could riot all they wanted but it wouldnt get them anywhere!
Instead of going on a cruise around the world you could just buy a (no doubt expensive!) world holiday program and go where you pleased without the discomforts of "the real world." Imagine being able to go on holiday and not have to worry about your safety or getting food poisoning! You could even control the temperature of your trip! Your only concern would be that of your computer getting a virus, however you would be able to buy a "Norton Holiday Anti-virus Kit!"
Unemployment would soar with computers taking over ordinary peoples jobs such as that of a prison guard, travel guide, or cruise ship captain. The highest paid jobs would be those of computer programmers, who would charge millions of pounds an hour for there services!
The possibilities are literally endless! What does everyone think? Are our days numbered due to our craving for entertainment? Will the rise in unemployment, along with the increase in crime and accidents destroy society as we know it?
:)
Phil
I often wonder where gaming will eventually lead us. All that I can imagine is that graphics and the way that we interface with the computer will eventually get so good that everything looks and feels like it is real! It could even get to a point where it is hard to distinguish between what is a game and what is reality. (Memories of The Matrix come flooding back.) I suppose it would be like living in two different worlds, one where all the rules can be broken and one where they cannot!
Could such an advance in gaming perhaps lead to an increase in crime as people confuse the two worlds? You can see the Headlines now! "CAR THEFT ON THE INCREASE AFTER RELEASE OF GTA 34!" Imagine people getting so immersed in their games that they would forget that such trivial things in the game world, such as walking through walls and jumping from massive heights, could not be done in the real world. Think of the consequences that such an influx in the amount of accidents would have on the NHS! (As if it werent bad enough already!)
There may even be a point where people are punished using a virtual gaming world. Suppose instead of having prisons, people were just connected to a computer and left to live in a virtual prison for however long there sentence was. They bodies would have to be fed from drips in the real world but the reduced cost of housing the prisoners and having to employ guards to keep them in line would save the government millions. The prisoners could riot all they wanted but it wouldnt get them anywhere!
Instead of going on a cruise around the world you could just buy a (no doubt expensive!) world holiday program and go where you pleased without the discomforts of "the real world." Imagine being able to go on holiday and not have to worry about your safety or getting food poisoning! You could even control the temperature of your trip! Your only concern would be that of your computer getting a virus, however you would be able to buy a "Norton Holiday Anti-virus Kit!"
Unemployment would soar with computers taking over ordinary peoples jobs such as that of a prison guard, travel guide, or cruise ship captain. The highest paid jobs would be those of computer programmers, who would charge millions of pounds an hour for there services!
The possibilities are literally endless! What does everyone think? Are our days numbered due to our craving for entertainment? Will the rise in unemployment, along with the increase in crime and accidents destroy society as we know it?
:)
Phil