The present state of virtual reality technologies [VR], computer generated imagery [CGI], and artificial intelligence {AI} being, for all-intent-and purposes, at the infancy stage of their respective development; what is to date presented indicates a strong potential for differentiating what is `real-reality' to what is a computer generated `virtual reality' literally impossible. A hallmark to this perception is the latest generation of video games, and blockbuster movies. Going forward, what impact will this have in the realm of politics, social order, and the structural organization to our beliefs?
Truth or Deception - 21st Century Style
Recalling the long-running television series the X-Files, wherein the introduction to an episode ended with the phrase: ‘The Truth Is Out There’, well as time and CGI (computer generated graphics) and special effects technology advance, it is becoming increasingly difficult to discern truth from deception.
Reference the embedded video: it illustrates just this point. The magic Hollywood goes beyond the cinema but undoubtedly, into our homes.
It does not take much imagination to realize that if such manipulation to what we are given to witness can be accomplished for a block-buster movie, that the same IS not done for the two-minute or less, video clip that accompanies the News anchors script.
The 2011 release of a movie directed by George Clooney, starring Ryan Gosling titled THE IDES OF MARCH, is a clear and blatant illustration of such potential manipulation to create a reality and present it to an audience, to gain a desired outcome. The premise to the movie clearly illustrates such fiction, given the advancements in technology in just a matter of a few years, is not in-fact happening. [https://youtu.be/y494hUO-aw8]
21st Century technology has made it extremely easy and inexpensive to massage an/or construct a virtual reality to meet any desired outcome to such extent that literally, nothing our given senses tell us can be deemed truthful and honest. From what we view and see through media, to the artificial flavoring in genetically modified food, can anything be trusted to be what it purports to be or represent?
It is not difficult to see significant manifestation of paranoia for anyone who has come to this realization; that all that they have come to put their faith to being a true and honest representation of their reality - is nothing but one big manipulated LIE!
So where do we go from here?
Given the potential and undoubtedly, remarkable advances in technology and wireless communication relative to the current state, it is impossible to predict what the future will have in store for humanity. One cannot help but speculate the full immersion of up-coming generations of technology whereby a virtual, computer generated and manipulated reality increasingly, becomes the norm. And, could this not be a planned, evolving event by the Elite or Powers-That-Be often alluded to by conspiracy theorists and potentially: the truth one should believe in.
Again, to reference the X-Files: the truth may be out there - but it is becoming increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to discern TRUTH from DECEPTION?
