You will exist in physical isolation.
People will be all around you, but they’ll all be oblivious of your physical existence, and you of theirs.
You will communicate your thoughts as a stream, following strict rules. That will constitute your role in making this new reality possible. If you don’t participate, you don’t exist.
You will experience reality through the streams of others “around” you, also connected to the machine.
People interacting with the media you push will be participants in the same “event”.
New media pushed at you from a conceptual “afar” will constitute “other” events. This will create the illusion of space.
You will only exist in the moment, the only way possible with any stream. The past must make way for an ever flowing new.
The only reality you will experience is that of constant momentary stimuli.
You cannot disconnect. Everybody else is still connected. There is no other reality outside the machine, as there’s nobody out there to grant it to you.
Disconnecting is disappearing from “The Reality”.
Welcome to the matrix. We’ve been moving towards this for decades. We’ve been waiting for you.
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The thing is the concept of Matrix is the simplest we can grasp. I think “the reality” we hope to experience cannot be understood at our current intellectual (i don’t think the choice of words is right as I don’t think it has to do with intellect but rather perception) level.
There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt in your philosophy (or mine for that matter
).
Great post, nevertheless.
I was trying to hint a bit at the Twitter revolution and its impact.