Three things that are, literally, the stuff of dreams:
- levitation
- telekinesis
- teleportation
All of these will be common in the next decade via metaverse-based human augmentation.
The obvious and core component is the necessity to surmount the “interface plateau” and enable efficient, low-effort avatar manipulation and I/O. Over the next several years this will be done by crude EEG/EMG-driven controllers combined with very primitive haptics. Yet even such a coarse interface will be far superior to the mouse + WASD keyboard kludge common today. And those primitive interfaces will deeply catalyze the expansion of human experience to the greater mindspace, of which the physical form is just a part.
Assuming of course, that we can stave off the violence of ignorance and the pornography of authoritarianism for the next couple of decades.
Will the toddlers of today grow to regard these “elements” less as magic than just half-implemented features of Human technology? I hope so, if only because by reifying some dreams, some magic, we make room for more, wonderful things to come.
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