Allseeingeye,
In a world where reality has become the prison, maybe virtual reality has become the only place where we are free....
It seems that this is the ultimate goal of elites...however I see it unfolding somewhat differently than the system portrayed in the matrix
trilogy.
Although it is not too farfectched an idea that the whole of human society could be systematcially enslaved in the near future by an Artifically
Intelligent technology of our own design, it is far more likely that the same elite cartels which have been psychotically toying with peoples
destinies through the centuries will be responsible for a method of total technological enslavement.
However, once AI and nanotech are combined into even a partially functioninal form all bets are off...self-assembling, self-organizing systems grow
non-linearly....a situation like the "Skynet" from the terminator movies is not so far fetched either....We are already able to fabricate individual
components of primitive nano-machines...all that is needed is to perfect a means of self-manufacturing, self-assmebling nano-machines which construct
smaller nano-machines all of which are controlled by an advanced self-learning AI....it would be a situation where once we turn the machine on, we
could lose the ability to turn it off within minutes, or even instantaneously once you throw quantum computers into the mix....
My point with relation to your quote is instead of an Amageddon type scenario as portrayed in T3 terminator series, it is more likely that a real
brain-computer interface will be available within the next decade, and people will choose to fully immerse themselves in a VR or Matrix type
environment by choice. Reality will just plain suck, so why not permanently escape into a VR world...after a while one just might forget about the
existence of the real world....
[edit on 9-10-2004 by abdul]