Reality is in the Eye of the Beholder?
Find the notion that, if fully immersed in cyberspace via Virtual Reality (VR), this dominant, first-person visual perspective may dictate, after some time, our accepted 'reality'? Some of you seemed to be a little dubious on Thurs. The following article details how VR is increasingly being used to assist in therapies for psychological disorders...and that it relies on the fact that the client suspends disbelief in the VR visual world enough for it to become, 'real', relevant and thus facilitates successful treatment. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3945251.ece
The second link wanders into the realms of 'futures' and where it might all be going...sooner than we anticipate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlBgIO6Mp9A&feature=related
Question is (and its a question I continually pose about technology)....just because we can, should we?
2 comments:
Is it just because we can't that we want to?
That got me thinking....and I think you're right; but then again, isn't that what drives evolution generally? We identify a need and develop a tool to meet it which then spurs us to consider other uses that the tool (or a revision of it) can serve to make our lives easier or more pleasant. I think "wanting because we can't" is, in some ways, a necessary catalyst for human and societal development but, at some point, we have to ask, "do we truly 'need' it and...(back to where I started!), "just because we can, should we?". Wisdom must inform and influence intelligence and ability?
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