Dream Machine
The question was posited in the last class: What sort of device would you want to help you in your life? The sky’s the limit. So, What would I want? Well, besides the obvious application of a teleporter, I would LOVE to have something that remembered where I put things. Basically I need something that will organize my life for me. Because I don’t have that skill. Maybe something that will think for me sometimes too… lol, j/k.
As for a device to transfer our thoughts to the page, I wonder if there couldn’t be a nefarious use for this type of thing. Like warrantless wiretapping, but into yout brain. Bad stuff.
In the book Rant, by Chuck Palahniuk, movies have been upgraded to this thing called “boosting”. It’s video on acid. You not only see what’s happening, you actually experience it, in a sort of virtual reality type thing. Everyone has a port in the back of their head to upload experiences and to “boost peaks”. This can also be affected by advertizers, like one time when the characters drive past a fast food place, they get a craving for that food. NEFARIOUS!
on February 20th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
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on February 21st, 2008 at 12:40 am
[...] I read elemons’s post on Dream Machines, the discussion of Chuck Palahniuk’s Rant reminded me of the novel Remake by Connie Willis. [...]
on February 21st, 2008 at 7:22 pm
i agree that typing our thought leads to dangerous ground. with all of the lack of privacy and whatnot going on today, who is today people could not get arrested/jailed/ etc on evidence based on the written out version of their thoughts? could be helpful but I think it would be taken too far and abused.
on March 4th, 2008 at 9:34 am
[...] I read elemons’s post on Dream Machines, the discussion of Chuck Palahniuk’s Rant reminded me of the novel Remake by Connie Willis. [...]