Reddit reviews The Atopia Chronicles

You should check out The Atopia Chronicles. Interesting read on the future of transhumanism, the Internet and virtual reality. Brings up some interesting questions, such as if in a virtual reality you can live in your dream house, date your dream partner, visit any part of the world on a whim, does it really matter where your physical body is?

For anyone who finds the topic of Brain Computer Interfaces interesting, I recommend reading The Atopia Chronicles by Mathew Mather. He offers an interesting and well thought out view into the possible future that avoids Utopian or Dystopian tendencies. Some cool ideas explored in his book include...

• Real time augmented reality filters. (adblock but for real life)
  
  
• extrasenses. (Imagine integrated data from cameras about waves in order to have a literal feel for the wave you are surfing.)
  
  
• splintering. (Imagine being virtually in two places at once)
  
  
• Collective Minds (Imagine merging two or more peoples consciousnesses into a single mind)
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Atopia-Chronicles-Book-ebook/dp/B00DUK1RKY

I really enjoyed Atopia as a different take on how technology can be so so good for humanity but also incredibly terrible for humanity and yourself. It's about to be a TV series, too, so I'm interested to see how that goes. So far the second book, Dystopia, does not have me as hooked


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