• @paddirn@lemmy.world
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    116 months ago

    Granted, all children will watch their parent’s lives get worse over time, in every way possible, and will be powerless to stop it, until they realize how horrible their parents’ lives truly were.

    • @henfredemarsOP
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      46 months ago

      Well that’s fucking terrifying. I’m imagining almost some pandemic dementia targeting mainly adults, forcing each generation to watch their parents suffer more horribly than the last, with the cure magically guaranteed to never be found.

  • @actionjbone@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Granted. Virtual reality and augmented reality technology quickly becomes extremely cheap to buy and easy to acquire. Soon, cybernetic implants become available so that a person doesn’t even need a headset to experience virtual reality.

    Within a few years, the implants are commonplace and easy to acquire all over the world. Children are implanted from a young age.

    Because virtual reality provides such a strong dopamine hit, people stop trying to live their lives in the real world. Every single person starts to live fantasy worlds in virtual reality. And everyone is very happy.

    The birth rate plummets, and within a couple generations no new humans are born.