https://blog.speculist.com/fastforward_radio/fastforward-rad-89.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://blog.speculist.com/fastforward_radio/fastforward-rad-89.html#comment-4532 Dave Coles Mon, 04 May 2009 08:31:47 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1882#comment-4532 A possible side effect of Believable Virtual Reality (BVR, a term I just made up) is: Who’s going to need or want a big house, or a second house, or a boat, or a private plane or an expensive cruise in a world of BVR? Some will, of course, but won’t a huge amount of money stop flowing into luxury homes, vehicles and goods? Won’t a side-effect of BVR be that our needs and lives and budgets in the world of meat simplify themselves and come to deal deal more and more with food and shelter and necessities, while our fun migrates into BVR where fun is cheap and plentiful and we’re rich and powerful? Also, what resources will this effect free up to fund scientific, and particularly medical research?

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