A new tech company offers you a free Virtual Apartment like the one you have just seen in
the movie Oblivion, a 3000sq.ft. sky villa completed with swimming pool, instead of you paying your life for a pathetic nano flats offered by those greedy developers in Hong Kong.
The only requirement is to insert a tiny transmitter and activator into your brain, easy
operation done in 3 hours, with a lifetime maintenance package, are you going to live in the
sky villa? Yes and No and Why.
No, simply because I do not want to do the surgery.
If it is safe and has no risk to insert a tiny transmitter and activator into my brain, I will definitely live in the sky villa because it is not only free but also far more better than all the apartments in Hong Kong. For me, it is just not worth to spend all my money and my whole lifetime to buy an apartment. Life is not just about buying a flat and there is a lot more to do, especially chasing my own dreams. It is sad that people nowadays treat buying flat as their ultimate goal and lose interest in pursuing what they really want to achieve. So if we can buy a virtual home, we can spend our time, effort and money to do something meaningful for our life instead of just buying an apartment.
no, life in reality is more fun. Although there are a lot of challenges and downsides, but fighting for our dream makes life interesting and meaningful. We ca enjoy the process of overcoming difficulties, the interaction with others and so on. These can never be achieved in sky villa. But of course, it is enjoyable to dream of staying at such a perfect place.
No, I would not accept the offer. A luxury house is definitely a much better living environment than a nano-flat. However, the problem is with such technology, will it be possible to live and interact with your family member. If not, living alone in a virtual luxury house for the rest of your life, unable to interact with anyone in the house is a painful long term experience. Even if you are able to interact with your family in the virtual house, that means your family member are forced to insert the chip in their brain as well, which will be a selfish action to take. From the aspect of family and living with others, I would not accept the offer as it might be either boring to live alone for the rest of your life, or selfish to force your family members to insert the chip in their brain together with you.
No. To be honest, this offer is quite attractive as the living environment of the sky villa is very good. I am sure that it is nearly impossible to own a house like this in Hong Kong. However, the apartment offered is virtual. This is just like a dream: you find that all things in the dream do not exist in reality after waking up. Moreover, inserting a transmitter into my brain may give rise to many problems. It may harm my health. My privacy may be infringed as well since the transmitter may disclose my location and what I am doing.
No. Life is not just merely about luxurious satisfaction. Living in nano flat can remind you to work harder for a better future. Living in a real home is far better than having a virtual sky villa. Having virtual sky villa is just self-deceit.
Other than the risks involved in going through the operation. I would not to live in such an apartment because spending all my time in the virtual world would deprive me from the actually reality around me.
yes, i would prefer to live in that sky villa rather than waste my whole life trying to earn money so that i can afford a decent house. There wont be any difference even if we have a chip inserted in our head.
Looking at the current development in virtual reality, I would say that its outcome is highly unpredictable on our brains and needs improvement. I would never risk my life based on a new company's product.
No. Inserting a chip into my brain would mean everything that goes through my brain can be captured and sold to companies or the government. I do not want to lose my freedom of thought and live in constant fear being arrested for thinking things the government does not see fit.
No.That's because life should be unpredictable and we should try as many things as we could but not only put ourself in the same place and know more about our world through the virtual reality because this was controlled by others but not us.
No, I wouldn't do it. The process of inserting the chip is risky and may lead to health concerns if it is not compatible to our body. Also, there is a risk that the chip maybe hacked and our brain maybe manipulated by who-knows-who. We may be forced to do something that we don't wanna do or maybe our privacy would be invaded (e.g. our location would be pinned). Having a virtual sky villa is definitely not worthy of bearing the consequences mentioned above.
Provided that my physical body is safe while I enter the virtual realm, I would not mind to live in the virtual vila.
Human experience is, after all, a collection of sensory data transmitted to our brains from our sensory organs (eyes, ears etc.). The option to enter a virtual vila is a thousand times more exciting than a tight and closed flat with no space to turn your body. Virtual reality simply wins by offering an incredibly vast and varied selection of experiences and services through minimal space. As long as my physical body remains safe and unharmed, the virtual vila would make my life vastly better off than before.
If living in the virtual apartment were a temporary, I would choose to experience it. However, since the operation is permanent, I would not choose to replace living in the real world, because it is not the size of our homes that bring happiness but our real-life experiences and interactions with others.
No, I won't do it. The meaning of life is to experience different type of things, no matter it is difficult, enjoyable or amazing. My life is going to experience different things and challenge different challenges, but not just to enjoy at a certain place forever. Also, up to a certain time, I may realize that I do not actually own this place. I think I would feel frustrated why I cannot own this in the real world.
As long as the operation will erase the memory related to the operation like the main character in the movie, I will accept the offer. It is happier to live without knowing too much. After accept the offer, I can live without being anxious.
I feel like the benefit of living in such a big house is quite suspicious for just inserting a chip, hence I would not do it. Also, all medical procedures involve risk to a certain extent, so I do not think that risking my health just to live in a bigger house is worth it. I want to be able to enjoy the reality aspect of my life and not be bound by the virtual aspect.
No, I will not choose to live in a virtual apartment. First, having surgery that insert a chips into my brain could be harmful to my health condition. While I don't know whether I will be satisfied with the virtual apartment, it is not worth trying to do so. Moreover, even though I can enter the virtual environment, there are still physical limitations. For example, I have to take care of my physical body after I enter the virtual reality. Being too immersive to the virtual environment may make us fail to do so.
No, I will rather live in a small flat if I am required to be inserted a chip into my body so as to live in a bigger house. It comes to my concern that the chip maybe able to alter or even destruct my brain function simply through several low voltage current.
No, I will not accept it. Although we live in a really small flat, it is still realistic. I want to have freedom to control my brain, I want to live like an ordinary human.