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May 8, 2020 at 10:12 am #1523947

blinky465

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Yeah screens. Maybe it’s the early days of cyberpunk. Like in the 90s when the internet was “cyberspace” and a 3d virtual reality place you went and hung out as an avatar, rather than a series of forums where you sit and… well, type, basically. Cyberspace never *really* happened but a niche few still strap on headsets and pretend it’s cool (I’m looking at you, Oculus users). In the same way, I reckon plugging straight into the matrix will only be for the kinds of people who currently do everything from the command line in Unix.

I think there’d still be screens. After all, we’re supposed to have flying cars by now but setting fire to putrified dionsaurs and leaving rubber particals on tarmac, just like we did 100 years ago isn’t just the norm, it’s also the blueprint for the future. Even if you plugged straight into your brain, I reckon you’d still need a screen, if only for debugging purposes!

I’m looking forward to the future when we ditch flat screen monitors and go back to great big hulking CRT tubes like we did in Total Recall 😉