{"id":102467,"date":"2020-02-17T17:04:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T01:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/nearing-the-simulation-singularity-what-would-immersive-computing-mean-to-the-human-mentality"},"modified":"2020-02-17T17:04:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T01:04:17","slug":"nearing-the-simulation-singularity-what-would-immersive-computing-mean-to-the-human-mentality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/nearing-the-simulation-singularity-what-would-immersive-computing-mean-to-the-human-mentality","title":{"rendered":"Nearing the Simulation Singularity: What Would Immersive Computing Mean to the Human Mentality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nearing-the-simulation-singularity-what-would-immersive-computing-mean-to-the-human-mentality2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moving ever closer to the Web v.5.0 \u2013 an immersive virtual playground of the Metaverse \u2013 would signify a paramount convergent moment that MIT\u2019s Rizwan Virk calls \u2018The Simulation Point\u2019 and I prefer to call the \u2018Simulation Singularity\u2019. Those future virtual worlds could be wholly devised and \u201cfine-tuned\u201d with a possibility to encode different sets of \u201cphysical laws and constants\u201d for our enjoyment and exploration.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We are in the \u201ckindergarten of godlings\u201d right now. One could easily envision that with exponential development of AI-powered multisensory immersive technologies, by the mid-2030s most of us could immerse in \u201creal virtualities\u201d akin to lifestyles of today\u2019s billionaires. Give it another couple of decades, each of us might opt to create and run their own virtual universe with [simulated] physics indistinguishable from the physics of our world. Or, you can always \u201cfine-tune\u201d the rule set, or tweak historical scenarios at will.<\/p>\n<p>How can we be so certain about the Simulation Singularity circa 2035? By our very nature, we humans are linear thinkers. We evolved to estimate a distance from the predator or to the prey, and advanced mathematics is only a recent evolutionary addition. This is why it\u2019s so difficult even for a modern man to grasp the power of exponentials. 40 steps in linear progression is just 40 steps away; 40 steps in exponential progression is a cool trillion (with a T) \u2013 it will take you 3 times from Earth to the Sun and back to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>This illustrates the power of exponential growth and this is how the progress in information and communication technologies is now literally exploding \u2013 by double-improving price-to-performance ratio roughly once a year. This is why you can see memory cards jumping regularly from 32MB to 64MB, then to 128MB, 256MB and 512MB. This is why your smartphone is as capable as a supercomputer 25 years ago. This is why telecommunication carriers are actively deploying 5G wireless networks, as you read this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving ever closer to the Web v.5.0 \u2013 an immersive virtual playground of the Metaverse \u2013 would signify a paramount convergent moment that MIT\u2019s Rizwan Virk calls \u2018The Simulation Point\u2019 and I prefer to call the \u2018Simulation Singularity\u2019. Those future virtual worlds could be wholly devised and \u201cfine-tuned\u201d with a possibility to encode different sets [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1512,219,6,64,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-mobile-phones","category-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}