What if the world we're living in is something like the matrix?
148575
Then ignorance is bliss.  Don't wake me up for that hell hole underground!
73219
Anyone with matrix background
30030
A TELEPORTATION MACHINE.  YOU COULD LIVE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD AND WORK ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD.
866865
geez, that would be awesome.  hey with technology the way it is now who knows...it could happen.
1112880
Its not a movie. its real. we are in the matrix.
642090
Intresting point, but you would have to construct a panatropic net with which to store a Matrix of all the dead minds. However, we're not far off making that discovery! ;0)
2100
No, not as they explained it in the Matrix. In the matrix energy is constantly lost to the robots and to heat, but there is no renewing source of energy. The movie claims that the humans feed on the dead; however, it is not possible to sustain, and then grow/reproduce, without some outside source of energy. We currently get this energy from the sun.
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All be the same-doubtful. we are, and will always be different. However, i do think everyone will hear of mcdonalds or famous people one day. Technology is expanding. Anyone who lives in developed countries or has acces to the internet will have. Progress economically will match peoples knowledge. One day, everyone won't be able to drive for a few hours without passing fast food restaurants
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Research suggests that within the next century not only will we completely understand the human brain but computer processing power will far exceed it. Therefore we should not only be able to replicate the brain but should be able to create a far superior machine or human version 2. Depending on how we as humans merge with this new technology will determine whether we are part of this superior race or seen in the future as a lesser being. Either way endless and exciting possibilities are around the corner I don't think we will be waiting 1000's or even 100's of years.
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Virtual Reality - almost there so this is most likely.\nBrain Transplants are currently too tricky.\n\nAlien Encounters would be cool - this is what I would like most. It would make veryone on Earth get along a bit better.
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we cant as we are all just tainted monkeys. If we could mentally join with each other and see the world through other eyes then we might stand a chance but as of now we cannot, maybe we could find a way for technology to help us mentally connect a bit like we are doing on the internet now. I bet a hundred years ago no one saw the internet coming and who knows maybe in another hundred mental wet wired plug ins for the whole family courtesy of microsoft.
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an existence where everything becomes smaller, and we can accomodate a lot more in the same place that can't hold much now..and of course wireless technology. And a lot of involvement of non-humans in industrial processings..\n  that is, as the other guy has said, more and more towards nanotechnology.
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I really don't think it will go that far, living oon the internet, there would be security risks. You would be more likely to find some kind of programme that would simulate it but i don't know, the idea of being data stored on a harddrive being transfered through out the world doesn't sound to great. your TRON like utopia is far from completion. \n\nThe whole concept of using glasses, and other equipment is doesn't grab me. I would prefer if virtual reality started moving more towards Star Treks' Holodeck type virtual reality, but it might be a bit difficult to reproduce the look and feel of, say an apple or physical human beings, in such an enviroment. There most likely would be some kind of suit you would need to wear, that would send signals to your brain so that you thought you were holding an apple.\n\n\nI think it's best we get on with our lives and let the scientists worry about how far they can go. When the time is right we will have earned millions so we can retire and live our VR dreams.
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I'm sorry, you'll never get a straight or a correct answer no matter what.\n\n\n"Huh? Why?!!"\n\nWell, let me put it in simple terms. We are predicting the future on current technology, either far overestimating where we'd be or quite the contrary.\n\nBack in the 60's, there were books out there and sci-fi films of what human civilization would have reached by the year 2000. No joke, they simply believed we'd be colonizing the moon by then, driving around hovercrafts and spaceships going in and out of earth like cars. As you can tell we are far far far from that.\n\nWhat if in the next 5 years we discovered something that would boost technology research rate by tenfold? That would surely mess up our calculations if I gave you one now.\n\nWhat if a massive war broke out in 15 years time between say China and the US? One that would devastate the world and make places inhabitable for the next millenia, setting things back to the stone age on certain parts of the world?\n\n\nI think you get the picture now =]
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True artificial intelligence is probably not going to happen for a long time.  We still have a very imperfect idea of how the brain works except to say that it is probably quite different from how a computer works.  But even if we ever get to a computer that passes the Turing test which is the current standard for deciding whether a program is intelligent the next question would be: Is it really alive?  Would a so-called silicon life form have self awareness or consciousness or would it just be a machine going through the motions?\n\nOf course before we try to answer that we have to decide whether we humans are more than carbon based machines going through the motions.\n\nI think that before we replace ourselves with silicon minds we will find a way to enhance our bodies with artificial parts (think: a human brain and nervous system inside some sort of mechanical "body").
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Yes, we won: Neo got rid of Agent Smith, that was the evil side of Neo trying to take over the Matrix. Because of this, the rulers of the Matrix decided to free all the humans that were still connected to it, and people and machines will go back to living together. The Architect, when he speeks to the Oracle, indicates that. You might want to rent The Animatrix, it gives background on the origin of the Matrix, and some interesting graphics.
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WHAT WORLD YOU LIVING IN?