It’s gonna be locked down. Everyone wants a holodeck, but imagine there are so many rules and regs on what you can and can’t do in one that it’s not even worth it?

Imagine playing GTA, but:

• you can’t hijack a train full of people
• buildings don’t take any damage when you fly helicopters into them
• people’s limbs don’t detach when you sever them
• you can’t make idle small talk with random NPCs without it escalating into violence

Would that be a GTA you would actually play?

One must walk before they can run. Probably. I dunno the future.

If you knew what came next in the ST timeline, you would not wish for it

Here’s the thing. You are all trillion of your features, but you are mostly an informative subset of maybe a million. You drop a verse of shakespeare from your memory and you’d essentially be the same person.

Your memories don’t encode every single thing that has happened to you, they encode blurry snapshots of fast-decaying events and flatten them over time depending on importance, filling in the blanks with other parts of your mind (made with other blurry decaying events).

If you thought AI was bad at hallucinating events, be glad you cannot ask your brain direct questions

That would be horrible. Law entforcement would have a field day (not with the fart statistics tho). Our brain is the last frontier of privacy.

Or hide the parts we want to forget and breathe normally for a few days.

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Just remember: 99% of gamblers quit just before they win big!

Required reading: www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_won_a_656_million_dollar_lottery_what_do/chba4bf

Dude that came out like 15 years ago

Maybe just teleporters that don’t work with living tissue.

If anyone ever invents a synthesizer somehow capitalism will fina way to ruin it. It would be lovely to live in a post scarcity society though

There are entrenched entities heavily invested, literally and figuratively, in aligning the government with their interests, and against the interests of the majority. Their primary methods are propagandizing the gullible to vote for the representatives they have invested in, and fomenting apathy in those they cannot propagandize.

The solution is two-fold: supporting candidates aligned with your interests throughout their career from local elections up to more powerful ones, and voting in every election for the front-runner who is less detrimental to those interests.

If you think the current government has their heads in their asses, it’s a good bet that this two-fold solution takes the form of voting for progressives in local elections and greater primaries, and showing up to vote for whichever of the front-runner candidates is comparatively more progressive.

Voting for a candidate that is progressive but vastly unlikely to win is counterproductive. Not voting because none of the likely candidates is sufficiently progressive is counterproductive.

If everyone understood this, and showed up to vote, within a few election cycles we’d have a government composed of un-assed heads.

Ideally by regulating the shit out of corporations, and dismantling fraudulent 501©(3)s like the Heritage Foundation.