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RE: I just discovered a new thing I want: A GPS jammer!
Yay! I really want that. :) I know that many cool games about that have come out and VR, but I'm a bit poor atm so I can't but that kind of stuff, but I'm really hopeful for the future. I think that if I keep working hard, I'll be able to buy a good computer where I can play good games and a VR set. Still, reality also has its charms, so I also want to explore robotics and other cool stuff.
I also think about what you said first. The future could be charming indeed once technology advances much more! I'd love to be in a tech research company in maybe 100 or 200 years. Or even now! There's tons of cool stuff being researched right now, but ahhh, I can't have any of that.
Dreams are good too, I guess. :3
Honestly, most of it isn't very realistic at the moment. There's no large-scale, realistic games in which you can actually interact with everything. Even with the best pc in the world, there just isn't anything really amazing to play.
Although I like gaming a lot, since it's really fun to do, I believe we'll see more sandbox'ish games pop up in a couple of decades, when we've advanced AI to a point where it'll assist much more easily in the creation of worlds inside of games with a set of predetermined rules.
The future is quite unpredictable though, I just hope it'll turn the world as a whole into a brighter place.
As for dreaming, I'm more of a daydreamer than a nightdreamer. Dreams in my sleep more usually show dystopias rather than the utopias you seem to describe. Fun as dreams, but not so fun if they become reality.
I live in the Netherlands, got a pretty good PC and can try most new stuff coming out. But even for me it ain't enough. Perhaps I'm just spilled though :/
I meant daydreams! Although I'm also a good nightdreamer, I don't dream much about technology at night, but mostly of fantasy, aliens and crazy magic stuff.
I also want that :) I want to get a nice amount of resources right now so that when the future comes, I'll be able to buy games and try new technologies and be the first to see many things.
As for the lacking level of absolute advancement, I'm with you on that! I read on 4chan the other day that someone said "born too late to explore the world, born too early to explore space". In a sense, just 40 years ago, with the birth of the internet and home computers, we created a new era of quick advancement that will stagnate in the future, but we were born right at the beginning of the curve. This means that although we can see the promise, we were born too early to explore the peak of the wonders it will bring. I'm a little nostalgic about that!
good sentence. Which counted for all times for a majority of people. Couple of hundred years ago one could explore the world as an adventurer or salesman on a ship - being usually male - becoming sea sick or ill with too few nutritions or threatened by infections and all kinds of diseases. But at least having explored the unknown. Also, as a housewife in the 50s this sentence would count as she may have taken an airplane to a hotel in the Caribbean Sea and maybe have gotten a glimpse on a local market, but this doesn't count as exploration, only holidays.
This sentence also counted for the owner of a great castle who must have stayed home in order to run the whole thing and the surrounding villagers as well as the authorities. As well a farmer could not explore the world as he had to feed his own and some others.
Neither for a midwife nor a doctor the exploration would have been possible.
The only ones ever were able to explore the world for example were the invaders, lonely adventurers or archeologists, the outcasts, the crazy ones or the monks on pilgrimage. Or those walking the thousand miles of the silk street or other caravan routes. Exploring the world means to put your life in danger.
I guess the real explorers of the world were the early human nomads.
If you are not one of those (or participating in training for space-affairs), willing to put your life at risk, I think being nostalgic about is not needed. Because there is still plenty of occasions you could do so. ;-)
you can have it.
It takes a little while to learn about most of these things and I'm way too busy trying to feed myself and getting a degree meanwhile. :)
I mean, it's physically possible for me to do those things, but I would have to make some great sacrifices that would bring a lot of suffering and discomfort into my life. I could do it, though (?).