Even counting the singularity, I think its decades away :p
I cant predict that far in advance, but the current state of tech in this area isnt moving very quickly, even with this.

I think its going to be very very hard.

Especially as people seem to dream in different ways...even on the surface.
Internally I'm sure we are even more different.

Another problem is I suspect the brain cheats a lot when dreaming....I'm not sure its even going to be a real image there.
I know when dreaming I seem to see, but I'm not convienced by brain is actualy doing a full raytraced render in realtime :p

I think its most likely generating only what its paying attention too...which wont be a complete image, only disjointed components.

Maybe whats more likely is a dream recoder/playback machine that dosnt do it visualy, but straight back into your brain.
That would take a bit of tech we dont have yet, but it would solve the decodeing/encodeing problem :p

http://gear.ign.com/articles/940/940240p1.html
http://gearmedia.ign.com/gear/image/...918780-000.jpg

Could this be it?
Finally a decent pair of Augmented Reality glass's?

You know I saw Crisis being played on an EeePC, via some sort of an ethernet link to a powerful PC it was installed on that calculated everything. You could have those glasses connected to some blue-tooth device that would connect via broadband to a powerful machine interpreting the reality for you.

Star Trek : TNG - The Mind's Eye - Preview

:zombie:

Mind's Eye; the Brain relies constantly on Visual Memories

The wait is killing me!
Best room illusion I've ever seen!

We see things relatively, not in absolutes. (unless your a sith).
http://www.digitalartform.com/archiv...ges/eChalk.jpg

The center of each cross is the same colour.
It looks blue/yellow only because of the surroundings.

I'd wager this relative site works temporarily as well as spacialy.

No fruklking whay :fool:

So our brains can do amazing special effect that will make any Photoshop work look pathetic, but we don't have a simple eye dropper tool.

http://www.blacklightpower.com/

This looks a bit hoaxish, but I hope it's not...

I've seen something quite similar to that in /. a few years ago. Couple of guys discovered a new, revolutionary energy source and founded a very promising company. Never heard of them again - so definitely a hoax. The product descriptions were also pretty similar, they never described exactly what the technology was about and how it worked.

And here's a local version of the hoax.

Every time some people finds a new energy source the people in power shuts them down because it would "hurt global economy". This actually happened in reality and not just in fiction.

For example. Some guy from Saudi Arabia (I think) discovered a way to save a lot energy, and the government paid him money to claim all rights and make him shut up, and then they kept it in a safe and not letting anyone use it because it would hurt their income. And I wouldn't be surprised if the happened in many many other countries from all around the world. If I ever find out a new energy source - I'll keep it to myself until I suddenly mass distribute the formula on YouTube or something... I'll show 'em.

It isn't difficult to make the details public and make them spread fast if you really do find some sort of highly efficient energy source. If you don't know how to do that I'd doubt your intelligence to develop something so incredible in the first place. Also, don't you think there'd be just as many companies and 'people in power' interested in sponsoring this as there'd be in shutting it down?

I really don't think the fact these things never progress is explained by conspiracies etc. I think they're just mostly silly hoaxes. Some of them are money-making hoaxes, and some of them are just existing technology that was reinvented by somebody unaware.

Putting the site itself aside, I do know of a real conspiracy ;) The company that created and patented lithium-ion(I think it was these)batteries was bought out by some big oil company like Exxon, and are barred from making bigger batteries then laptop size. So now if you want to build an electric car you need to buy hundreds of laptop batteries to keep it going.

My dad's company makes emergency sirens, like the air-strike ones. It is an impossibility to buy any high-tech batteries in large enough sizes, and we looked everywhere...

Yes Ive heard about that one too, so pathetic how far companies can go to prevent us form getting a better form of energy :p

Its not all Hoaxs; Some of it is people fooling themselfs too.

Theres some small levels of ambient energy around us in various forms.
For instance, any child can make a crystal radio set....it dosnt require battaries...it takes a small current from the radiowaves around us.

I suspect a good deal of these people that think they found free energy are just making a mistake and they will find their magic new energy source goes when they try to scale it up.


I dont buy conspiracy theorys for this stuff, as Medur says, its easy to make this stuff public.
Not to mention the fact free energy benifits the world...even those working in current energy projects.

I do believe though, many things are suppressed in terms of efficiency boasts. Not conspiracys, just "public but not allowed to make it"

Thats EXACTLY why the current patent laws are messed up.
They should never be used to prevent innovations, only to ensure people that invent something gets royalities.

Of course it's easy to make it public. But most people who discover such an enormous thing won't just make it public, they will try to figure out how to make it out in an organized way. When someone up there finds out they can just send an agent to assassinate them and destroy all evidence...

Perhaps I watch too many movies :p

Yes, you do :p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sloot

"Despite the impossibility of such a technique"?! Narrow minded wikipedians.

I actually thought of a way to make such thing possible some time ago, nice to see other people thought of it too. Laugh, but I'm actually serious.

(And no, I'm not telling you how, I intend to try and make something out of it. Unless I die by a heart attack first...)

Then why haven't you done anything about it already?

I intend to. But it requires more work.

Yes, the movie is online here;
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/
:D

Theres certainly better compression possible, but not to that ratio.

For instance, in theory a movie could work and reproduced like a 3d scene, allowing assets to be reused. Textures could be factual compressed.
Would be incredibly hard to do, but thats theorticaly possible and might reduce size by a 10th, or even 100th.

But 8kb? Err...well...the movie script might fit in that :p

My idea has all huge files compressed to 8kb or even less regardless of their content. I know it probably seems like total bullshit without me telling more about it, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be viable.

No, that's impossible and I can tell you why:

assume you instead of claiming being able to compress all files to 8 kB you can compress everything to 4 numbers, for example, when you compress the number '1234567' you compress it down to '1234' or something.

Now, if you decompress '1234' you should get '1234567' for compression and decompression to work. Now , there are almost 10^7 numbers with 7 numbers, how can you have the amount of combinations of four numbers ( = almost 10^4) cover decompression to ALL the combinations with 7 numbers. Remember when you decompress a 4-digit number, there can only be one output, and the 10^4 combinations are all unique and can't be decompressed back to more than one number.

There's a box. Think outside of it.