Alex Howlett had emailed me why wasn't Mark Bolas getting more credit publicly, Alex thought he should. Beats me I thought, but maybe someone doesn't want too much public scrutiny? Bolas did take a ...
"cleverusername" wrote: Those VR setups take massive amounts of power, high end gaming systems with extreme video cards, that takes lots of energy, can all of us have a VR future where energy supplies are infinite?
I don't see why not. We derive all our energy, including that which is locked in fossil fuels, from the sun. That's not going to expire for some time! I hope that through VR we can reduce our carbon footprint. Robotic surrogates stationed around the world could mean we are less reliant on travelling. Why send your body halfway around the Earth on a plane when you can transport your consciousness into a robotic avatar? We may eventually operate almost exclusively in the metaverse, with robots performing only essential services IRL. That has to be a more efficient way of doing things, right?
I'll see your Mel Gibson, and raise you a Bruce Willis ;)
