Forgive me for instilling worry and fear in you, but what you really should be worried about are the actual technologies that have always been, and continue to be used, in reality, to make the indiscriminate and disgraceful killing machines of several renown powers increasingly potent and efficient for the sake of realizing their dishonorable agendas at the cost of human life, peace, freedom, and prosperity.
Are you living in 2012? I wish I could agree with you in 'celebrating human responsibility in effectively bringing world peace'. In fact, our choices and actions as humans have driven us the furthest away from world peace in the 50,000 year history of the modern Homo-sapien. This indicates a 'severely profound lack of responsibility' and actually a retardation of capacity, as with such time, and the intelligence and tools (technologies) we have acquired, we have chosen to drive ourselves beyond the points of human and planetary disaster.
Without veering too much of course here, yes, there are some nations who are interested in developing weapons of mass destruction, with a sole purpose of expanding their prosperity. It's a shame you like to tie that in with the greater picture of amazing technological progression, because an interest in invading new land to conquer is a natural human "drive" whether it's with bow and arrow or with today's advanced killing machines.
I have tremendous respect for what has happened on this earth through human history, unfortunately for you, I'd have to say we are living in a pretty stable world, with just about every nation respectful of it's boarders. Now if you want to talk about the absolute destruction we are causing to our earth through manufacturing, transportation, construction, chemical-use, never ending greed for natural resources, waste/sewage management, bad agricultural practices, ect., ect., you're right this does indicate a 'severely profound lack of responsibility'.
I'm of firm belief, given that there is seemingly zero interest from most of the worlds big manufacturing (and consuming) nations to severely restrict and change current ways of doing things, that in roughly 50 years, the earths atmosphere will be so toxic, the entire population of the world will have to go back and live in completely natural ways, just like our ancestors did.
If people who passed away 100+ years ago, woke them up and showed them what is going on this earth, they wouldn't believe their eyes. To think about that everything that we have today really comes from the 'plain' earth we live on is so far beyond belief... it is such a double edged sword, one side shows the brilliance of what humans have progressed to, the other of course is that it come at the expense of perhaps all life on earth... it's really terrible.
If only all governments would be scrambling to achieve clean energy, every homeowner is forced to produce their own electricity and use clean transportation the world would be a much better place. The most beautiful thing is to wake up in the morning, hear the birds and just spend the day outside without any 'tech', thank goodness most people on earth still live in this fashion, because 'tech' really hasn't made quality of life better.
Anyway I'm looking forward to GT6, hopefully solar panels and private wind-turbines can be relatively cheaply installed... yep, zero emission racing... hope this post has it's place in this thread now...
I agree that erotic and fantasy relationship video games are silly, but that is not what I was referring to mate. I am talking about a completely immersive experience wherein at some point in the future you will be able to enter a sub-concious realm of virtual reality and experience things as if they were completely real.
Life is indeed profoundly beautiful. Such beauty, and the infinite experiences to be had, should most definitely be had in real life, in reality. However, there is MUCH benefit to having a realm of Virtual Reality (and video games) wherein you can allow an individual to encounter experiences that are either healthy for the mind, body, and soul, or those that are simply desired yet may have some potential psychological, physical, or monetary consequences ranging from mild to severe. An outlet of a sort that would allow you to live life responsibly.
'The beauty of life is not to be made virtual' is quite a vague statement. Most of us are more than intrigued by the technologies in place that are utilized for recreating and replicating the beauty of life for enjoyment in more that one way, or more than just in the ways you can only enjoy in reality.
Meh, I don't get it, and I don't want to.