First post, by gerry
let's imagine someone in 2050 remembering their far away youth in the late 1990's
They want to relive the past, revisit and re-experience it a little
to the AI interface that is permanently present they say "I want to experience the late 1990's again, the movies and songs but especially the computer i had and the games i played, only i don't remember the exact details too well."
the AI spends a few seconds weighing up their personal data and also processes 1000's of TBs of online data, watches 1000's of movies, listens to 10,000's songs and plays almost every game from 1995 to 1999 while correlating and weighing up millions of other data items of the time
it produces the following:
- a beige computer case and crt from a 3d printer, it all works (actually it does nothing, a tiny share of nearby computing power generates all the actual outputs, but it appears to be PC, it even has components)
- 100's of complete games that look, play and feel a bit like 1990's titles - but have never existed before and will never exist after
- endless movies and songs all apparently real 1990's songs and movies but all generated on the fly, none have been seen or heard before and none will be ever seen or heard again - there is no shared culture at all*
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*although if prompted the AI will generate a convincing online community who have 'seen', 'heard' and 'played' the games and will happily discuss it with our protagonist, whether by chat, forum, voice or video call