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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fiery James" data-source="post: 2052376" data-attributes="member: 625">About 16 months ago, I had a dream of the “near future”.  In that world, you could order fast food for delivery with your remote control, and the cost would just be added to your monthly cable bill.  So, if you were watching TV, you could hit your MENU button, select FOOD DELIVERY > PIZZA and a pizza would be dispatched to your door.The pricing would actually be pretty good, due to the exclusive contract that the cable company had with the delivery company – and it could also be adapted for local specialties.(This dream also featured a “virtual world” where people could assume different personas and interact via their wireless keyboards through their televisions – essentially, their PCs, TVs, and other media equipment had been replaced by a total “Entertainment System”, and most computer use was now done from the couch via wireless keyboard and giant plasma screen.  Now, this is all very similar to stuff that already exists today, except these virtual worlds weren’t fantasy MMORPGs – they were virtual worlds similar to our own.  No adventures or quests or anything – just a futuristic version of online chat or messageboards like this one – except you had an avatar and could go have conversations with other virtual people.  People developed entire relationships online that didn’t exist in the real world.)None of this stuff was a creation of my imagination, so much as a projection of where things are headed.  Certainly, a year ago all of this stuff existed, but it was just more developed and advanced.So it’s odd to see this whole pizza thing!(No real point, just sharing!)</blockquote>

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