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[raxo2222]

It would be possible to create various characters, creatures and heroes of our pop culture from period 1970-2020?

For example using advanced AI, nano/bio-technology its possible to create all things/creatures/humanoids like gumibears, smurfs, pokemons, dragon ball characters, elves, Gandalf, Ironman, Superman and other pop culture creations of today?

Or all these fantasy can be recreated in Full Immersion VR with great accuracy?

...Because technology goes exponentially.

[Italian Ufo]

a mix of the two things

[eacao]

By 2200 I can assure you that those characters probably won't be being made. Firstly because society will have changed so much by then, going on a decade-by-decade basis, it's the difference in culture from the victorian era to today. Secondly, even if you are still alive, I can presume that your interests will have changed a lot from what they are today.
But don't fret. You have your brain. Don't underestimate the VR capabilities of your brain. The more you use your imagination, the stronger it becomes and there are mental exercises you can do to make your fantasies more vivid. Don't wait for VR or GE to create these things. Just go ahead and imagine them up and be satisfied with that. You have a supercomputer inside your head. Use it to its full potential.

[raxo2222]

By 2200 I can assure you that those characters probably won't be being made. Firstly because society will have changed so much by then, going on a decade-by-decade basis, it's the difference in culture from the victorian era to today. Secondly, even if you are still alive, I can presume that your interests will have changed a lot from what they are today.
But don't fret. You have your brain. Don't underestimate the VR capabilities of your brain. The more you use your imagination, the stronger it becomes and there are mental exercises you can do to make your fantasies more vivid. Don't wait for VR or GE to create these things. Just go ahead and imagine them up and be satisfied with that. You have a supercomputer inside your head. Use it to its full potential.

In Victorian era and before people were dreaming about dragons, elves, wizards and other stuff, so what is in our popculture, you may find it in next 200 years. Some icons of our popculture like Shrek, or Pokemon can survive, especially if there are movies and games about them keeping released.
It may be little but distinct fans for them in future.

I imagine this stuff every night, for example gummibears exchanging with smurfs their juices
Or more modern, pokemons and other Asian popculture icons meets Shrek and Anglo-American characters, at Ural border.
Or even I "experiment" with fantasy creatures - e.g fusing Ironman with Pikachu, and some Zeus-like creature comes out *loud thunderstorm noise*

[Kombaticus]

I imagine this stuff every night, for example gummibears exchanging with smurfs their juices

I'm am so making this my signature.

[CyberMisterBeauty]

If we have technology to make all these things reality,why not create them?By the way,I think the world after 2200 will be a mix of Final fantasy with superpowers.I've created a topic simlar some months ago,it's very nice...

[Zeitgeist123]

Id live in the mutant world of the Marvel Universe and Ill be Magneto or Storm.

[planetary]

If people are really gonna remember those characters for that long, then why would they choose to make those characters come to life in the first place?

[raxo2222]

If people are really gonna remember those characters for that long, then why would they choose to make those characters come to life in the first place?

Nostalgia. Aren't we going to live in 2222 year?

I wonder if Hercules could be possible to make in 2080 year. At this stage fairly upgraded human would look pretty... "overpowered" if moved back to 2012 year.

[hellgorama]

I wonder if Hercules could be possible to make in 2080 year.

Its called steroids.

[kjaggard]

The thing is that we are talking about a shift in mode of thinking and living that it the industrial revolution time a factor of ten. At least.

The wonders of heavier than air travel through the sky, and debate over wether going faster than fourty miles an hour would be so fast that the air would be moving too fast to breath, were real ideas about amazing things that may be possible... and now we do these things regularly without seeing the wonder of them.

We may well be able to do some things like this but it'll be short lived marvels and then we'll know that we could do that and it won't matter. Outside of themeparks and film making we don't see a lot of usage of animatronics. We could do it everywhere if we wanted, your tour guides in cities could be animatronic, the tram you ride could be a monorail that needs no driver, and so on. We don't do a lot of it for one reason or another but we arn't really amazed that we could do something like that if we wanted.

That being said there may be room for the hobby and arts folks to take off running with some of these ideas. I could see myself living in a hobbit home style dwelling with four inch homonculus tending to the little things in my house for rewards of sweets, and pixies to play with and tell stories to. But the trick to those would be getting a decent AI. something like uploading a cat or dog style thinking capacity and patching in language understanding.

There might be something like LARP theme parks that people could go to for interacting with 'the myths of old'.

It will be interesting to see how it goes. One of the things that can make the difference in this sort of thing is that there isn't anybody around from before the industrial revolution so there really aren't people to be able to contrast perspectives of before we could do this and after. it's all been so gradual. but if we are all around when it's possible to sculpt a puppy sized dragon out of claytronic tool steel and load in a copy of cat 2.0 we will see the wonder and awe of it for a good while, and even when we get used to it we will still stop from time to time and marvel that the modern world is so different than it once was and there are some amazing things comeing true.

But to give perspective there was once a tiime in your life that having a story read to you was an amazing thing, and you couldn't read it yourself but now you can read and are doing so right now and you lack the awe of it you had when you were little. The magic of reading has become mundane and utilitarian. Tech too can become mundane and lose it's magic. But we still do use it to remind us, by setting up places where we can go to specifically acknowledge the amazing tech. Think of amusement parks all of which with tech old enough that it shouldn't be wonderful to us but still is, and movies. It's rather like stepping over a threshold into a place where we all agree that it's acceptable to dwell in wonder.