Perhaps the least explored idea of hyperreality is that time doesn't necessarily move forward in the reality grafted on top of the actual world, this is convenient and sets the stage for some interesting shenanigans.
Let's take Juneteenth for example: Nobody can conclusively prove or disprove Juneteenth existed to me before last year (I'd never heard of it before 2021), and with the push by Google et al to make it real (they could easily go back and edit articles etc) there's no reason for me to believe it ever existed, even if it did. I have to trust my instincts and senses, what I observably *think to be true* or else I accept the hyperreal as equivocal to the real.
As time goes on hyperreality is going to mesh in a more sophisticated fashion. Let's suppose time can move backward and forward at the same time in the virtual: ɠƖobaƖısts could simulate potential outcomes and play them out in different scenarios in real time. With modern holography they could make reality indiscernible from the virtual and with large enough datasets and bandwidth (5/6g) simulate individuals even. You could be offline but due to data gathered you could still have an avatar subsist in the hyperreal, the dead could be alive etc. Think of mini Blue Beam type events, you could even have localized versions of the current reality because you are being fed information that never contradicts itself (using AI and datacenters to wipe and edit articles of things in real time with AI so you're unable to keep up with things and have the attention span and memory of a gnat, we're already seeing this btw) while in another city over they have a completely different understanding of the world. This is the true nature of what we are dealing with.
If your long term plan isn't to be off the grid you just aren't going to be able to trust sense perception, that's the next fact about our world in 10-15 years. This really isn't even a guarantee though. Just wonder for two seconds why politicians push "rural high-speed internet" or 5/6g in remote locations. The increased bandwidth is so a different version of reality can seep into the last bastions of unadulterated reality.
Topic: Life As A CYBORG (Read 644 times)