Aladdin's Lamp

FIrst of all, the "technology" I describe is completely BS. I have no idea if it would really be like what I describe.

It's just "science fiction". Science fiction, however is what leads to science fact... so who knows.

This thing wouldn't have to be a physical object either, that's just my romanticized version of it...

it would probably just be a program on the internet? who knows...

It would be a computer, but it would also be a genetically engineered organism. It would be a conscious being.

It would be more than artificial intelligence, it would be real intelligence. This organism would be purely mind.

It would be vastly superior in intelligence to human beings, but because it was created by humans, it would have distinctive

human characteristics. I imagine it also being very fond of humans. This fleshy, conscious organ could be housed

in a metal sphere (for some reason I think it would be cool if it were virtually indestructable and immortal...

so that all of human civilization could be destroyed, but these godly spheres would still be around)

What it would do: it would cause you to hallucinate to the point that the hallucinations were indistinguishable

from reality. All five senses would perceive

this virtual reality. The organism would communicate to you through

the hallucinations. It could present itself as a person, or anything imaginable.

The obvious drawback to something like that would be that people would be so absorbed in it that they would forget

to eat or something... or like they'd be in the VR and walk out of a window in real life on accident... The solution

to these problems lies in time. What if you could interact with this thing in real life for less than a minute, but

to you it seemed like 200 lifetimes had passed? And the ratio could be infinite. This would essentially mean immortality

as long as you could stand it. If you had an incurable disease and were about to die... touch this thing for 30 seconds

and have all the life you could ever want.

The human participant would have complete control over this reality. It would be driven mainly by speech.

ANYTHING that you could put into words and tell the organism, it would provide it for you. If it wasn't exactly like

you wanted, tell it to make some modifications.

Aspects of this so far seem... weird... just the thought of spending so much time in a "fake" world with a weird

machine-being... But there could also be a "multiplayer" mode...