For someone I agree with on the basic premise of this thread, you sure come up with a lot of arguments I disagree with. When I consider augmented reality, all I see is convenience and utility. I imagine walking in a new city while receiving information about all the things I'm looking at and never getting lost. I imagine building a cabinet in my hypothetical woodshop and never having to measure a single thing by hand. I imagine looking for my keys and, instead of my eyes slipping past them without noticing they are lying underneath the table in peripheral vision, having my device recognize their shape and point them out to me. These are things that do not take the place of human interaction. They just make some aspects of life easier. It's not some kind of virtual reality drug trip fantasy that everyone is looking to disappear inside of. If you think it is, you're totally missing the point.
Your premise is, our unfathomable sometimes by conventional means, but in no way inaccessible ENGINEERING AS HUMANS......CAN EVER BE TRUMPED BY ANY SUCH DEVICE.
Our factory loaded engineering to perceive, to assess, to imagine, to invent.....is INFINITE.---to see things with eyes by Marcel Proust.....is iNFINITE.
No man made device will ever come close. and AGAIN we maintain and potentiate our inherent goodies....only by USING THEM.
I will now offer one personal example and then, I am finished with examples: I have observed, over time, every phone number I have ever used, mostly is stored in my BRAIN. it is only many of those I put in my phones long ago.....I no longer remember.
I too work with wood...I've designed and built cabinetry....I sent the file with original plans, isometric drawings and images of finished items to a mod here, in fact. He got overly impressed. I learned from my dad, to first judge by eye.....and then confirm by measuring.
Same deal (again) re increasingly computerized "smart' cars.....so much of driving is honing visceral awareness....very sharp, very subtle. You come to depend on computers to do that, you ATROPHY.
Main reason I will never be a gamer....I have minus 14 interest in "interacting' with virtual beings. Make no mistake, becoming addicted to that also erodes. As does the illusion humans are really forging meaningful connections on Instagram, Fakebook, etc. Tho, social media clearly has upsides geo-politically.
I am thrilled and humbled by our potential as living beings....and each of us is unique on top of that.
You ain't never gonna see an offering made via Photoshop sell for 60M in a fine arts auction at Christie's.
Finally, in most things, I have no interest in making life EASIER. Richer, U bet, easier, not so much. I find every minute exciting, challenging and thrilling. The more fully present one is this moment.....with full access to all our goodies, and the capacity to connect fully to all other living beings..... the more thrilling and filled with wonder life is.
, but I hope U recover fast.
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