For a split second this seems like a good idea and possibly a financial monster. Then reality reaches out and smacks my jaw allowing me to think what a pitiful life if all of your great memories were the exact same cookie cutter memory as 1M others in just the last month.
Think about it like this if you were young and had many memories like this your social and private life would be in crisis, we are already not having enough person to person human contact and have lost the ability to communicate with each other properly and forbids the need arise to speak to someone of the opposite sex or someone we're attracted to. We need physical contact and experience things differently from each other, it's part of what makes us individuals, BUT on a special occasion why not???
Great point, thank you for sharing. I agree we need more person-to-person contact, this is slowly dwindling unfortunately as our faces get stuck to our phones more and more.
Nice premise... if you don't own your past, do you still own yourself?
Want to evade the meaninglessness of life with passive nostalgia? Want to get the trophy without the struggle? What's your price?
One up: license memories. Give them 30 second unskippable Coca-Cola ads before downloading the memory of their child's birthday party. Want a seamless download experience of your new skill? Upgrade to Memories+
Great point, but how cool would it be to learn to be a master at almost anything (unless your physical body wouldn’t allow it for example sports). At the same time hard work, time and dedication go down the drain. Your ad idea is genius and hysterical at the same time lol
It would be wildly cool.. but it's the most terrifying place I've ever imagined... existential entropy...
Would you even care about the "skill" after you downloaded it? Get the Karate Master Pack, do it for a few hours, then what? move on to the Cooking Supreme Set, the Space Explorer badge, then so on, onto the next skill in a never-ending cycle of skipping the struggle? isn't that what makes an otherwise limitless, endless, indifferent universe tolerable//worth experiencing?
Imo peak infinite everything = the collapse of "meaning" itself... drifting eternally in the ocean without ever being able to anchor to anything meaningful?
I agree with you 100%, but when this becomes a reality most likely it will be available only to the individuals who could afford it, initially atleast. Not to say that makes it any better for humanity.
For a split second this seems like a good idea and possibly a financial monster. Then reality reaches out and smacks my jaw allowing me to think what a pitiful life if all of your great memories were the exact same cookie cutter memory as 1M others in just the last month.
Think about it like this if you were young and had many memories like this your social and private life would be in crisis, we are already not having enough person to person human contact and have lost the ability to communicate with each other properly and forbids the need arise to speak to someone of the opposite sex or someone we're attracted to. We need physical contact and experience things differently from each other, it's part of what makes us individuals, BUT on a special occasion why not???
Great point, thank you for sharing. I agree we need more person-to-person contact, this is slowly dwindling unfortunately as our faces get stuck to our phones more and more.
Memory as a product...
Nice premise... if you don't own your past, do you still own yourself?
Want to evade the meaninglessness of life with passive nostalgia? Want to get the trophy without the struggle? What's your price?
One up: license memories. Give them 30 second unskippable Coca-Cola ads before downloading the memory of their child's birthday party. Want a seamless download experience of your new skill? Upgrade to Memories+
I absolutely love this.
Great point, but how cool would it be to learn to be a master at almost anything (unless your physical body wouldn’t allow it for example sports). At the same time hard work, time and dedication go down the drain. Your ad idea is genius and hysterical at the same time lol
It would be wildly cool.. but it's the most terrifying place I've ever imagined... existential entropy...
Would you even care about the "skill" after you downloaded it? Get the Karate Master Pack, do it for a few hours, then what? move on to the Cooking Supreme Set, the Space Explorer badge, then so on, onto the next skill in a never-ending cycle of skipping the struggle? isn't that what makes an otherwise limitless, endless, indifferent universe tolerable//worth experiencing?
Imo peak infinite everything = the collapse of "meaning" itself... drifting eternally in the ocean without ever being able to anchor to anything meaningful?
I agree with you 100%, but when this becomes a reality most likely it will be available only to the individuals who could afford it, initially atleast. Not to say that makes it any better for humanity.