Yesterday I had to justify my interest in virtual worlds such as ICE6d. I explained that it started with my belief in the coming technological singularity--that accelerating technological advances foretell of human intelligence augmentation that will rapidly progress from doubling to exponential increases and of strong artificial intelligence becoming probable based on increasing computing hardware and software and on ever finer exploration of our brains.
We already use some primitive examples of augmentation as cell phones, googling and GPS navigation. But a major barrier has been the user interface. We've stayed facing the real world where the interface isn't well integrated.
An alternative? Face into the virtual world where informational access is built into the environment. All the separate interfaces to multiple augmentation devices and services can then merge into one.
My justification is helping to move humanity forward, to be ready to use accelerating technologies; to use augmentations; to merge with strong artificial intelligences as they arise. And along the way to collaborate better with each other as we share out one home world.
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