Have you ever awoken from a dream so real, you are unsure if it was a dream at all? Were you glad or did you want to return? Were you a super hero, did you find the person of your dreams, were you good looking, rich, popular?
Imagine walking through life seeing it as it should be, beautiful. The glory of nature, gorgeous sunsets every evening and everyone you meet, perfect in all the ways you can imagine them. All of them.
Picture your wife, your husband, your partner and count their flaws. Why must you look at them each day, wouldn't you rather perfection, wouldn't they want you to see them as perfect? Look into the mirror, anything you want to change?
People are worried about fake news and how can the words of world leaders be trusted giving the ability to fake motions and words but, like all technology, that is not where the danger lies, it is in the entertainment of it.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder so, just think how cool it will be to be able to slide on a pair of augmented realty (AR) glasses and see the world as you wish to see it. See the people you wish to see in that world. To go to the beach and only see the toned bodies of athletes, to work and be surrounded by the rich and famous. Who will you go home to, your husband or, the object of your real fantasies? The star from your favorite movie or, a different person each night?
What would happen if we could choose the avatar we wanted others to see? Would you project your true-self out into the world or, would you make tweaks? How heavy would those tweaks be, are you still recognizable?
Perhaps surgery could implant the technology, no more glasses, just see the world as you choose to see it. A pull down screen of options, zero cellulite and unblemished skin of course unless, that is what you choose to see.
What would you choose? A bar filled with the most beautiful who see you as you choose to be or, reality? Wouldn't a little augmentation be okay?
In a world as beautiful as this, why would you be watching the news, why would you be paying attention to anything other than what you want to see. Gandhi said "Be the change", but why, when you can change the world to suit your desires instead?
Just think of how much easier life would be to no longer have to worry about how you look to others, nor even to yourself. Each day you could pick a fresh face, a new style of clothing a different body and experience the world as you choose, live in a home of your design. The smallest, most basic apartment could appear spacious, luxurious and filled with the best of everything.
Would that make you happy? Will seeing wealth make you feel wealthy, will being surrounded by beauty make you feel beautiful? Fake it til you make it or, make it all into a fake. We curate our online social lives now, why not fashion our real world similarly?
We can fill our 'live feed' with only what we want to see and we could even potentially adjust what we hear. Filter out the negative, enhance the positives. Race issues could be a thing of the past too, just filter the colors you do or don't want, manipulate the voices to match the views.
All of this, on the fly while we live our lives. No lag, no login, wake up and go...
Wake up. Why wake up when the dream is reality?
Taraz
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