Spooky Actions At A Distance?: Oppenheimer Lecture Your Future Reality Is Virtual. With rendition switcher Big Think: How will next-gen virtual reality change our lives?
Ray Kurzweil: Well, start from today: we have virtual worlds like Second Life. It’s flat, it’s on the little screen over here, it’s kind of cartoon-like. Despite that fact that it’s not very realistic yet, we see harbingers of everything we do in real life from runs on banks to virtual romances to virtual concerts and all kinds of activities that we do in real life. In fact from people who have been on Second Life just for the past years, they’ve seen a substantial increase in the realism of that virtual world. The Quantum Conspiracy: What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to Know There's a 20% Chance We're All Sims. What’s the Big Idea?
Depending who you ask, there’s a 20 to 50 percent chance that you’re living in a computer simulation. Not like The Matrix, exactly – the virtual people in that movie had real bodies, albeit suspended in weird, pod-like things and plugged into a supercomputer. Imagine instead a super-advanced version of The Sims, running on a machine with more processing power than all the minds on Earth.