Back to episode — Episode 2567 CWSA 08/15/24
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Well, let's start with some fun science. Then we'll get to all the political intrigue.
Over in China they've got a restaurant that pretends to be a train. So it's like you're inside a train car but the windows look like they have video screens instead of windows and they're coordinated so it looks like you're in a train car that's going through this beautiful countryside. Now how much do I want to eat in that train car that looks like it's going through the countryside? A lot. I think that would be really cool. I don't know what else it has. I don't know if it has vibration or some background noise or something like a train.
But I've long imagined that what travel will look like in the future is a drone with a 360-degree camera that somebody either legally or illegally flies through every street and places that you would want to go. So let's say you wanted to go to Santorini or you wanted to go to Paris. You just sit in your room where the windows of your room would be big windows but they would actually just be TV screens and they would show the exact video from the drone that had already gone through the city or the destination. Imagine going to Stonehenge just sitting in a chair in a room and then you basically are, it's like you're in the drone and you're flying through all the rocks of Stonehenge, assuming any of that's legal. I would never need to go anywhere again.
I've had some experiences with virtual reality where when I was done I said, you know what, if this were a real place, in some cases they're not real, I would not need to go there. I would feel like I'd seen the pyramids if you had a full virtual room experience where you were walking around the pyramids and even like going up to the top of one and inside one and all that. Would you feel a deep need to actually visit Egypt? I literally wouldn't. If you gave me a rich enough virtual experience I wouldn't have any curiosity left. I'd say, well, I got a pretty good idea what it's going to look like.
I did that with the Coliseum, the Rome Coliseum. I did a virtual reality program where you got to stand there and look at it at least from the
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outside and I said to myself, I feel like I've been there. I have an actual memory of being there and I've never been there. It's the weirdest thing. Anyway, here's a cool thing. There's now an implantable device that can automatically detect if you have an overdose of opioids and then if you do it administers a dose of naloxone, which is that drug that they give if you overdose on fentanyl and o…
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