This thread is more meant for interesting discussion than anything else. The thought occurred to me recently about how technology impacts fidelity (on both making it easier to cheat/presenting more opportunity and catching the cheater) and what the future will eventually bring to the table.
As much as facebook gets demonized by some people on this forum, it is just a tool and essentially the amount of joy and/or benefit that the majority of people who use it outweighs the amount of strife it causes in EA's and reconnecting old flames, etc.
I actually forsee some even bigger challenges that may or may not be in our lifetimes that will cause infidelity to even rise more and present marital challenges than social network sites and adulterous dating sites on the internet.
1) Virtual reality porn
Don't kid yourselves, this is a real possibility and don't think people aren't out there working to get to this future cash cow. Whether or not you strap sensors onto your genitals and wear a helmet to see the porn star you could virtually touch and feel or perhaps have something that wireless transmits something into your brain or maybe even something like in the movie Surrogates, it will cause a heckuva lot more problems than your typical porn.
2) longevity of life-
I think my generation may be one of the last generations that could die of "old age". There will most likely be in the next 50 years a way found genetically to stop aging. Putting aside the problems of population overgrowth (which exists regardless of any new longevity measures) and class wars where the rich will afford de-aging and where the poor can't, this will have an effect on monogamy. Til death do us part changes when you may be looking at living twice or thrice the amount of time you thought you were.
those are two things off the top of my head that I could see happening
what do you think could be something we could face?
I think virtual reality porn you speak of is not far off. There are already very realistic love dolls out there now. There are video's of the love dolls being placed at a bar. And men actually attempt to hit on them. The don't realize it's a doll until they touch it. I think the next leap forward is making them move.
If anyone doesn't know this, there is an actual law that states that every two years computing capacity on a chip doubles. That has held true since the early 80's.
The problem is always the same cost vs application. New technology is expensive and the hardware and software support is often just as expensive, flawed, and isn't designed well.
So often times we hear about this new amazing technology. That promised to revolutionize things. Well that technology is however it it takes time to develop, master, and find the full potential before it become widespread.
Electronic Data Interchange was a pipe dream 15 years ago. Now EDI allows companies to order products real time instantly. Toyoda EDI is so complex that it actually orders parts as they are installed into cars. So toyoda gets the exact amount of parts they need without having to store large amounts of parts in a warehouse.
Porn has always been behind the curve even though porn sales put hollywood and pro sports sales combined, to shame. Why would they change a model that is so lucrative. Until virtual porn can be as easily hidden as hitting the minimize button on browser it will be a niche just like those realistic love dolls.
It will be more interesting to see what happens as the digital age sweeps the world and governments can't contain the free flow of information anymore. I wonder what the political climate will look like. I think that the biggest issues will be protecting privacy and mantaining the internet as a free and unfiltered web of knowledge.
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1) Virtual reality porn
Don't kid yourselves, this is a real possibility and don't think people aren't out there working to get to this future cash cow. Whether or not you strap sensors onto your genitals and wear a helmet to see the porn star you could virtually touch and feel or perhaps have something that wireless transmits something into your brain or maybe even something like in the movie Surrogates, it will cause a heckuva lot more problems than your typical porn.
The technology for this will improve cybersex. Cheaters are already cybersexing thru video chats, etc. Then they will be able to get even more enjoyment out of it. If anything, infidelity will increase.
Another possibility from this technology will be cyber prostitutes.
I think virtual reality porn you speak of is not far off. There are already very realistic love dolls out there now. There are video's of the love dolls being placed at a bar. And men actually attempt to hit on them. The don't realize it's a doll until they touch it. I think the next leap forward is making them move.
If anyone doesn't know this, there is an actual law that states that every two years computing capacity on a chip doubles. That has held true since the early 80's.
The problem is always the same cost vs application. New technology is expensive and the hardware and software support is often just as expensive, flawed, and isn't designed well.
So often times we hear about this new amazing technology. That promised to revolutionize things. Well that technology is however it it takes time to develop, master, and find the full potential before it become widespread.
Electronic Data Interchange was a pipe dream 15 years ago. Now EDI allows companies to order products real time instantly. Toyoda EDI is so complex that it actually orders parts as they are installed into cars. So toyoda gets the exact amount of parts they need without having to store large amounts of parts in a warehouse.
Porn has always been behind the curve even though porn sales put hollywood and pro sports sales combined, to shame. Why would they change a model that is so lucrative. Until virtual porn can be as easily hidden as hitting the minimize button on browser it will be a niche just like those realistic love dolls.
It will be more interesting to see what happens as the digital age sweeps the world and governments can't contain the free flow of information anymore. I wonder what the political climate will look like. I think that the biggest issues will be protecting privacy and mantaining the internet as a free and unfiltered web of knowledge.
The technology for this will improve cybersex. Cheaters are already cybersexing thru video chats, etc. Then they will be able to get even more enjoyment out of it. If anything, infidelity will increase.
Another possibility from this technology will be cyber prostitutes.
Absolutely I could see this....
It is kind of scary in a way..what this will all lead to.
I know with my situation, 20 years ago H would not have been able to have an EA like he did. We had no computer, no cell phone, etc....so the only way him and his long distance EA would have communicated would have been via home phone (which would not have happened for obvious reasons) or sending letters (again as I check the mail 100% of the time this would not have happened plus writing a letter and then waiting for a return letter could take at least a month.)
Plus I think the advent of all these adult sex websites for the married were not around so if you wanted porn you had to go to the store to get it or if you wanted to cheat it would have to be somebody you met thru work, social settings, etc. Now you just go online and there is a plenty of available married people wanting sex.
Scary....I think the internet will eventually do us all in.
I do find it scary that porn, etc. is so available and if anyone thinks that you have to verify that you are at least 18 to view it..then they are living under a rock.
I read somewhere that they are finding that guys in their 20s are suffering from ED more than ever and they think it could be the fact that when they were younger..early teens and up that when they started to view porn they needed over time more hardcore porn to "get it up"...and then now when they are in a real relationship these young guys are finding it difficult to get and stay aroused because what they see on their computer is not always like that in real life. I mean in reality the men and women in porn do not look at all or act like regular everyday people.
For everyone who will find a new way to be horrible, there's someone else looking for a new way to be outraged and offended.
My god, the crap Guttenberg and Aldus Manutius had to put up with with this whole 'propagation of knowledge and literacy' nonsense. If the first book he printed was the Bible, the second was probably porn.
How about nanotechnology? Can you imagine taking a drink or touching a pad and having your body flooded with microscopic pleasurebots? Or nanobots that give you a hallucination of having sex?
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