Can there be room for another system?

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weirdami wrote:
This source will be the cheapest because in the mean time, such illegal crossings will have increased so much that there will be so many more dead mexicans in the desert and the company that uses the brains will be the company that also dabbles in desert clean up.

Wouldn't this be seen as a conflict of interest?  More dead people=more brains=more raw material=more product=(theoretically) more profit? :-D

As for the original topic, the only thing I can think of that would impress ME would be a true 3D GUI manipulated by, for example, something similar to Nintendo's old Power Glove...

... although for the life of me, I couldn't think of any practical USE for such a GUI.  It'd be interesting nonetheless.

Now if we're talking about something completely revolutionary, I'd like to see someone perfect a computer I can wear without looking like a 'tard.  Say, something about the size of a cellphone or PDA, but with a Bluetooth HUD built into a pair of sunglasses.

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Given that a sheet of paper is still one of the most powerful and frequently used tools used by man, I'm not sure a virtual 3D environment is the solution.  2D is still the best for data representation.  There's a reason why the virtual reality craze died out in the early 90's.

As I said, it'd be hard to find a practical use for the 3D environment.  Still be interesting to see how someone would pull it off.

As for VR dying out, I don't think it's dead completely.  Rather, it became a sort of spiritual predecessor to the "virtual online worlds" that seem to be popular these days. Can't remember the name offhand, but it reminded me of "Better Than Life" from Red Dwarf...