The ending of Inception is one of the most famous and iconic scenes in movie history. The totem keeps spinning, leaving the viewer on the edge of an astonishingly dramatic precipice.
It was a good movie, but soon after, people slowly left the world of science fiction and dreams and come back to reality. But the idea doesn't go away. An idea, as Di Caprio claims, is the most resilient entity.
And the fact is, the more ridiculous and ambitious an idea is, the more resilient it is. Humans tend to remember unusual and out-of-place occurrences more so than routine ones. And what is more is crazier than alternate reality.
The concept of alternate reality has been the Klondike of science fiction thrillers. But is it basis enough to enter the realm …show more content…
are working hard to make alternate reality a reality. Of course what they're working on is better termed as augmented reality that is, extending your reality by creating goggle-like virtual reality devices.
True alternate reality would mean that the subject would only be aware of that particular reality and not his actual world of physical existence - just like dreams.
The primary hurdle is data collection. If we want to create an alternate reality, it is not just about how it looks but also about how it feels to the subject. The alternate reality has to 'behave' just like his own reality does. Once that data is aggregated, the next challenge is to create complex and 'intelligent' systems that can process that data into information that will be completely suitable to be the yarn to the fabric of an alternate reality.
The final step would be to create a delivery mechanism - a visual and cognitive system that feeds information to the neural input lines of our brain so that we feel like we are finally …show more content…
Is this the media’s way of trying to prepare us for life? For example programmes such as the queen’s nose and Bernard’s watch are set in the world of a real child, but they have a fantastical element to make the program interesting to watch. Watching a boy with a bog standard pocket watch walk around on a normal day isn’t exactly good entertainment. Magic and fantasy are intriguing. And the world of fantasy and imagination is a very real one. It is where our arts come from and I am completely fascinated by it. Books, films, dreams, theatre, music, poetry, art, gaming, all forms of creative expression in some way create their own little world. They are all little forms of escape you might say. This carries forward the idea that we seek comfort in imagination and imaginary things, just as it makes us comfortable and secure as children. As we progress into late childhood and our teen years we delve more and more into these arts. As we are encouraged to read and explore literature we delve more into the imaginations of
It was a good movie, but soon after, people slowly left the world of science fiction and dreams and come back to reality. But the idea doesn't go away. An idea, as Di Caprio claims, is the most resilient entity.
And the fact is, the more ridiculous and ambitious an idea is, the more resilient it is. Humans tend to remember unusual and out-of-place occurrences more so than routine ones. And what is more is crazier than alternate reality.
The concept of alternate reality has been the Klondike of science fiction thrillers. But is it basis enough to enter the realm …show more content…
are working hard to make alternate reality a reality. Of course what they're working on is better termed as augmented reality that is, extending your reality by creating goggle-like virtual reality devices.
True alternate reality would mean that the subject would only be aware of that particular reality and not his actual world of physical existence - just like dreams.
The primary hurdle is data collection. If we want to create an alternate reality, it is not just about how it looks but also about how it feels to the subject. The alternate reality has to 'behave' just like his own reality does. Once that data is aggregated, the next challenge is to create complex and 'intelligent' systems that can process that data into information that will be completely suitable to be the yarn to the fabric of an alternate reality.
The final step would be to create a delivery mechanism - a visual and cognitive system that feeds information to the neural input lines of our brain so that we feel like we are finally …show more content…
Is this the media’s way of trying to prepare us for life? For example programmes such as the queen’s nose and Bernard’s watch are set in the world of a real child, but they have a fantastical element to make the program interesting to watch. Watching a boy with a bog standard pocket watch walk around on a normal day isn’t exactly good entertainment. Magic and fantasy are intriguing. And the world of fantasy and imagination is a very real one. It is where our arts come from and I am completely fascinated by it. Books, films, dreams, theatre, music, poetry, art, gaming, all forms of creative expression in some way create their own little world. They are all little forms of escape you might say. This carries forward the idea that we seek comfort in imagination and imaginary things, just as it makes us comfortable and secure as children. As we progress into late childhood and our teen years we delve more and more into these arts. As we are encouraged to read and explore literature we delve more into the imaginations of