Hopefully capitalism and women will prevent a disaster by rewarding productive and diciplined humans with wealth and children.
If a society does not threaten its people with poverty, misery and slavery as a consiquence to wasting your life on video games, then that society will crumble to make way for one that does.
The point I'm wondering though is will technology make it so that it's just as easily to accomplish productive tasks from within a physical-less VR simulation, as it is to play video games? In which case neither producers nor consumers need to remain in physical reality for long, since they can accomplish their tasks via thought alone?
In the last few decades we've seen white collar workers become shackled to the desktop, and then shackled to the internet. Just how many hours a day do any of us spend away from the Net? How much of the physical world are we missing compared to our ancestors?
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Hopefully capitalism and women will prevent a disaster by rewarding productive and diciplined humans with wealth and children.
If a society does not threaten its people with poverty, misery and slavery as a consiquence to wasting your life on video games, then that society will crumble to make way for one that does.
The point I'm wondering though is will technology make it so that it's just as easily to accomplish productive tasks from within a physical-less VR simulation, as it is to play video games? In which case neither producers nor consumers need to remain in physical reality for long, since they can accomplish their tasks via thought alone?
In the last few decades we've seen white collar workers become shackled to the desktop, and then shackled to the internet. Just how many hours a day do any of us spend away from the Net? How much of the physical world are we missing compared to our ancestors?
Great point, thx.