Question #9
"What possibilities do you think cyberspace holds for us in the future?"
JF:
Cyberspace has the potential to monitor and manage resources intelligently, making them available to all in a resource-based economy without a price tag www.TheVenusProject.com
DB:
I think that cyber space will reach a level of cosmic interaction within the next 100 years.
MG:
Cyberspace could destroy us, or it could enhance us. The way it could enhance us is that it can be used for communication and sharing. Kind of like what I am attempting to do with MySpace. If you take away all the riff-raff and crap that comes through and deal with people on a level where ultimately everyone wants to exchange and share with honest communication . On MySpace I can share music and every once in a while write a blog about things I think or feel and that can help in a small way in altering the world for the better. The thing about MySpace is that I am able to write a song and an hour later you can hear it and that used to take years. So that’s phenomenal! That’s the positive thing about cyberspace, but it could also be used to deceive or hurt or harm and that‘s a shame. The way to limit that is avoid falling into those traps and temptations which all take you further from your real purpose and missions. You see we all have something very specific we are to do given our individual gifts and that can be thrown off course by falling for the various seductions that exist. It takes a little discipline and personal restraint but that’s about it.
PP:
I am unsure. I am already amazed by the possibilities
presently.
SG:
It'll tactilely touch more than just a few senses. I have a feeling it'll involve all of them.
A:
We'll have a keyboard on our mouse. We won't have a keyboard anymore. Also possible You will say with your voice, "Computer On" Your screen will fill the wall and you will have no keyboard or mouse, you'll tell it what to do.
NS:
There will be all sorts of advances, but they’ll come at a cost. Cyberspace will increasingly hypnotize us, eating more and more of our time. I predict a rise in the number of virtual shut-ins who prefer all the wonders of advanced technology over unadulterated contact with their fellow human beings.
AU:
I think the possibilities are endless (see answer to first question)
SS:
I expect continued helpful increases in efficiency/sustainability. Information sharing and development of a collective consciousness should contribute to the elimination of ignorance. However, there is the immediate danger of mental retreat into an idealized cybernetic unreality. Why live a wretched existence when you can live in virtual reality. This already occurs on a certain level as millions of couch potatoes play the role of fictitious characters in increasingly realistic video games. There is also the potential for the creation of our own universe in cyberspace. It is fathomable that a human entity may eventually exist within cyberspace without the body. This prospect is both exciting and terrifying.
