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- That VR would be a one-way trip - once you upgrade, you can't go back to the real world.
That's not the way I imagined it, I think that it would rather be like The Matrix, where you're just plugged into a system, which provides all the sensory information directly to your brain.
Your body would still host your consciousness, and would need to be sustained - but by whom? We'd either have to log off regularly to take care of our needs (though we could automate some processes, like we could connect our bodies to tubes with food), or we'd need someone to take care of them for us.
But having a VR would mean that no one would want to work anymore (since you don't need money to get stuff in the VR), unless the VR itself would be an elitist paid club.
Society as a whole would probably change in ways we can't imagine.
Also, now I think that immortality+infinite VRs(=transhumanism) is the end point of our civilization.
- That VR will happen before we are all 100% immortal transhumans
I'm not one to be an advocate of conspiracy theories, but since the inventions of VRs or immortality would change our entire civilization, I wonder whether such discoveries would be able to be publicly shared with the world.
TPTB might not feel like letting all the people on the planet into their secret transhuman club. It's like those rumours about cold fusion being possible, but its inventors assassinated.