Linda Goudsmit. As Sun Tzu taught us, all war is deceit, and we are in the midst of WWIII globalism vs.nationalism – a psychological/informational war of deceit. The foundation of all relationships, private or public, is trust. Like all things, the science and technology being developed can be used for construction or destruction. The two worlds of trust and technology intersect at the point of governance. Do we trust the government to use the science and technology for construction and for the good of society? I certainly don’t. Why? Because the definition of the “good” of society is in the hands of the same globalist elite megalomaniacs who control the science and technology. The unconscionable self-serving perspective of the globalist elite drives its deceitful marketing strategies – for your own good of course. Apple’s VisionPro is the consummate example. What is “extraordinary” today will be used to sustain an unaware and compliant population who will own nothing and be “happy” in their drugged, surreal, servitude.
What Ben Shapiro misses is that totally immersive, no longer aware of objective reality, children removed from the normal consequences of life, are tactical objectives in globalism’s War on America. War is deceit and the primary target of the globalist predators are America’s precious children. My prediction is that within a few months the educated/indoctrinated millennials will be standing in line to experience the VisionPro experience and share it with children. These clueless, low-information, other-directed, indoctrinated millennials are surrendering their precious children to the globalist enemy.
By Ben Shapiro, JWR February 7, 2024
This week, I tried out the Apple Vision Pro.
That’s the device you’ve been seeing on the news: the bulky, unwieldy headgear; the bizarre images of people attempting to manipulate the air in front of them; even some people driving while looking like Geordi La Forge from “Star Trek.”
It’s extraordinary.
As a piece of technology, I’ve never seen anything like it. It takes the apps on your phone and places them in the world around you: you can pin them in various rooms in your home. This essentially makes television extraneous; it allows you to post lists of groceries on your refrigerator; it allows you to speak with people in real-time while navigating the real world. The graphics are in the early stages, but they’re just as mind-boggling: one app called Encounter Dinosaurs introduces you into a prehistoric landscape, complete with dinosaurs. Remember how terrible movie 3D is? This is nothing like that. It’s totally immersive, and reacts to you.
So, what does this mean?
On a raw level, it means that entertainment like movies and gaming will be leagues better than anything now available. You’ll be fighting with a lightsaber like Luke Skywalker in “Star Wars”; you’ll be surfing waves along with Kelly Slater. You’ll also be in landscapes far from your office or cubicle — you can already seat yourself in the midst of a nature landscape near Mount Hood, complete with soundscapes and full 360-degree view.
But as the technology progresses, it means something far more dangerous: the complete transformation of human relations.
Why? Because right now, everyone knows that you’re engaging in a mixed reality; after all, you look like an idiot wearing around scuba gear in broad daylight. But presumably, the technology will get smaller and less obtrusive. It’s not hard to foresee a future when people will have all the same capabilities and more, but projected into contact-lens type technologies.
And when that happens, everything changes.
Imagine walking around, being able to access answers to any question by referring to ChatGPT — without anyone knowing you’re doing so. Every conversation becomes a supplemented conversation. Every job interview becomes a test of AI rather than a test of the human being. Every date becomes a date between two AI prompts. Or imagine a shared reality in which everyone wearing the technology sees the filters projected by others — so that normal human appearance disappears, corrected by the technology toward the unobtainable ideal. Imagine an even more dystopian world in which Apple or another major corporation controls what you see and hear by barring certain content or mandating certain language.
The world of supplemented reality can open new vistas. But it can also become jet fuel for human frailty and sin, the same way smartphones have been. Imagine children growing up with such technology, removed from the normal consequences of life, their thinking atrophied by AI superpower, never having experienced the difficulty and beauty of normal human relationships.
We are opening a can of worms here. And that can of worms can’t be closed. All of which means that even as our society throws away classical virtue, nothing is more necessary than its rapid reinstitution. If we advance technology and give people new capacities while ignoring the natural limitations of human beings, we are likely to meet with the ugly consequences of unknown unknowns.
There’s a dystopian Korean Drama about this from 2018, called “Memories of the Alhambra” which is now on Netflix with English subtitles. The title is probably a reference to “Tales of the Alhambra” (1828) by early 19th century American author, Washington Irving – best known for “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) – written when he visited the Alhambra and, without knowing the history, wrote stories that he imagined might have taken place there.
The Kdrama is about a popular virtual reality war game that went south, centered around the Alhambra, that is so real, people can die and from which there may be no escape. The head of the company that bought it enters the game to search for its creator who disappeared.