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RE: I just discovered a new thing I want: A GPS jammer!
Imagination is always more exciting than really having it. Just look at today. We have all those amazing things - compared to hundred years ago - but are still bored. What's the point then?
Yes, reality is often disappointing when it actually brings you the things you imagined about. However, I feel like there are a lot of things that would still make the world a lot more fun.
A problem of recent years is peace & regulation. Yeah, I understand that it's good for the population as a whole, and we definitely should not stop trying to bring more peace into the world, but it also turns the world into a less exciting place. Creating your own bit of chaos is always fun and that is what simulations will be able to give us more and more in the future.
Though I gotta agree on Space Travel sounding more exciting than it's probably gonna be. Many are envisioning spaceships travelling between planets in our solar system or even between different solar systems. That's really going to turn out disapppointing no matter how you put it, as we're not going to be able to go on a daytrip to Mars, then to saturn's rings and back to Earth in a week. Going to other stars would take years, even once we've figured out ways to propel us more efficiently. However, I do believe it will get more interesting than sending cars into space and letting sluggishly slow robots drive on Mars.
I get you.
The game only stays exciting if it's the real thing. Once you know it's a simulation its only exciting while it lasts. But coming out of a simulation is not the same as surviving the real thing, right? (Unless, you don't know that it's VR).
Flying hundred years ago was a real thing. It was dangerous and life threatening. It still is but doesn't feel that way. Same with driving. It could kill you but doesn't feel that way. Probably hunting was the same thing in humans past.
Now space traveling is only the real thing because it's so exciting. You can win and lose it all. As an astronaut. Once it becomes a custom for everyone, it becomes a normal habit. Than there is no novelty and no excitement involved. I agree on that with you.
I think modern people paid already the high price for certainty (less novelty) - we live longer, we stay longer healthy, we travel, we move like there were no tomorrow. But it's not the real thing. Where you could die any moment. Some times it really becomes a nuisance to us that we made living in modern times so certain. But we made it a really dangerous thing to be an animal or plant. From their perspective it's probably the most uncertain times on earth. Which will turn out to be something we will - I think - inevitably get what we wish for (and what we weren't wanting, too).