Originally Posted by Logic

This is what is going to happen. Neural-digital porting of information is already here in rudimentary fashions.

See http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/ne...digital-memory

I think the future of entertainment will be like Total Recall, where people get memory implants - but it won't really be a memory implant, but an experience implant - so you actually experience the movie reality as the present moment, not as past memory. They would basically be custom dreams that you pay for, except you could remember it afterward. But I think it could be terrible, because you might not be able to tell which is the "real" reality, as in Total Recall (and every other work of Philip K. Dick lol).

And unfortunately, yes ads will be beamed directly into our brains/minds. It can even be so insidious that you don't detect it as an ad from an outside source, but you perceive it simply as a desire from within to obtain some bs product.

It is easy to imagine radiotelepathy as a powerful instrument of social change, used either for good or for evil purposes. It could be a basis for mutual understanding and peaceful cooperation of humans all over the planet. Or it could be a basis for tyrannical oppression and enforced hatred between one communal society and another. All that we can say for certain is that the opportunities for human experience and understanding would be radically enlarged. A society bonded together by radiotelepathy would be experiencing human life in a totally new way.

Originally Posted by FNugget

As I see it, movies are dying because of pirating. The movie theater used to give an experience because the darkness and the size of the screen and the sound system. But now people have all that stuff at home. Peoples TVs at home are good enough that they would download movies. What kind of entertainment can provide an experience you can't get from a recording? A live play. But plays are so boring. There aren't any special effects, just lights, clothes, a backdrop, etc.

tl;dr Would you watch a live play directed by Michael Bay?

Originally Posted by Hamster

I'll still watch a movie in the theaters if it lends itself enough to a cinematic experience.

Originally Posted by GHB

being in the middle of the scenes by playing the movies in your brain would be fun ;P
having ads in your brain would be less fun though

Originally Posted by Lume

I would rather go to the theatres then watch a movie on any sort of TV that they have around where I live, even if the TV was as big.

Originally Posted by sirkill1

plays eh?

well i dont think its the fututre, its the past, the future is three d movies which you can partake in somewhat like virtual reality... i'd pay for something like that

i always go for the the 3d it makes it a whole lot cooler....plays are ok but they're way to drama-ie for me. unless they have fireworks and or 'splosions in which case they are worth it.