alt Hacker NewsIt is equally childish to compare the engineering of our modern water and plumbing systems with the automated generation of virtual textured polygons.
People don't get tired of good clean water because we NEED it to survive.
But oh, another virtual world entirely thought up by a machine? Throw it on the pile. We're going to get bored of it, and it will quickly become not incredible.
> we NEED it to survive.
plenty of people in the world still drink crappy water, and they survive.
You don't _need_ it, you want it, because it's much more comfortable.
But when something becomes a "need" as you described it, you think of it differently. Just like how you don't _need_ electricity to survive, but it's so ingrained that you now think of it as a need.
> We're going to get bored of it, and it will quickly become not incredible.
exactly, but i have already said this in my original post - your standards just moved up.