One day, I would like to see HAL's brain used in 3D games like Quake or Ultimate Tournament style enviroments, at one time I used to enjoy making Ultimate Tournament maps with UnrealEditor, I could make very good maps controlling the physics of all items, enviroments, Bots, A.I .etc but lost the interests after getting burned out from making so many maps.
One day, technology will change the face of textures from virtual texture sheeting to actual 3D virtual particals, where each partical is given a set of rules so the virtual particals can be used to build 3D worlds, where an A.I bot could literally scoop a handful of virtual water and drink from its own hand and feel real.
I could at the time build a movie box in the editor that allowed the visual effects to be infinite (visual Map distance), I did build objects, little round spheres to duplicate atoms although not to scale as a real atom but in the properties section for the object one could control the physics of the little round spheres, they were kickable, tossable, grabbable, even the gravity of the spheres could be controlled to alter the apparent weight and the particals can be programmed to have damage properties as well if impacted by the partical.
but as I was experimenting with building a world from virtual particals I realized one thing, It's going to take me forever to build a world from trillions of virtual particals but for the moment it was something that made me wonder, are we really alive or are we some amazing program running on some supercomputers main frame doing more than what I just mentioned.
If the physical properties of the fundamental particles can be programmed into very small virtual spheres designed by an advanced
3D AutoCad it may be possible that these virtual particals may interact with each other and combine to form Atoms, Molecules, Planets, Stars .etc based upon their physical interaction with each other.
I hope what I said here has an impact on your life, that was the total intention, these are the things that my dreams are made of.
Jerry[8D]