Don Rudo
Nando161Wake up babe, new Philip K Dick story just dropped
Neonard Limoy@nando161 Janeway is real. The future is here
Monica Rooney@nando161 it’s the sequel to William Gibson’s Idoru we didn’t need
Diogenes of Snarkadia@monicarooney @nando161 I thought I was the only one who read that
zendao42
xs4me2Gotta be kidding...
katherine montalto@nando161 this is basically the plot of Cherry 2000
@nando161 he just needs Melanie Griffith to take him into Zone 7 for a new disk
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@katherine_montalto @nando161 I appreciate this reference, thank you
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀@nando161 that’s gotta be Hart Breaking, oh deer …
Obsolete@nando161
She was always complaining anyway
She was always complaining anyway
ptrourke@nando161 I mean, it's not entirely inaccurate as a summary of Gibson's "All Tomorrow's Parties" ...
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The man who married a hologram in Japan can no longer communicate with his virtual wife
The software that allowed the interaction is no longer supported and the man can no longer interact with the hologram with which he had a relationship for years.
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The man who married a hologram in Japan can no longer communicate with his virtual wife
The software that allowed the interaction is no longer supported and the man can no longer interact with the hologram with which he had a relationship for years.
(Feel free to edit this into your post!)
jojo@nando161 sad boy hours
I TRIED TO TELL YOU@nando161 Perky Pat
mmu_man@nando161 that'd be called "death by a copper cut"
faxmodem
Tech Tyrant ᴶᴶᴳᵃᵈᶢᵉᵗˢ 
@nando161 @GossiTheDog now we wait for her to be remotely controlled thanks to the WebP vulnerability LOL
@nando161 software obsolescence
Felix 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇺🇦@nando161 So sad. Sad that he married a virtual wife and sad that she's gone now.
R. L. Dane 
LOL... peak 2020s, yo.
@nando161 after seeing Blade Runner 2049 this actually makes me sad.
Andrew
Bicho Morado@nando161 Strong blade runner 2049 vibes
@BichoMorado @nando161 Her 2.0?
Resuna@nando161 Idoru - the bad ending.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220111/p2a/00m/0li/028000c
Yaoi Box Balloon@nando161 Dr. Krieger!? 🧐
Giles Goat@nando161 ... scary ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBOXQz7OHqQ
However IMHO the saddest/scariest story of this kind I ever heard is that there are some companies producing "virtual avatars" ( based on some 'models' with data you supply them ) of deceased persons "to help with grief" and such ..
Now that was in Black Mirror but it's getting reality too ..
Gatebox - Promotion Movie "KANPAI"_English ver.
Bill the Lizard@nando161 This is why we must insist on open source virtual wives.
Dr. Fortyseven 🥃 █▓▒░@nando161 Alas, the way most marriages go. :(
dennisaurus
Wladimir Palant@nando161 Nope, that isn’t Philip K. Dick but Ted Chiang. The story is called “The Lifecycle of Software Objects.”
OmnivoreAlso "The Probability Broach" by L. Neil Smith and a few others I can't be arsed to remember. The virtual wife story is the "Life imitates Art" version of the Pygmalion -> Pinochio -> Frankenstein -> I Robot (the book, not the "CGI Robot" movie), Genera.
Humans have long been known to create their own nemeses (like Batman created the Joker and vice versa).
In "The Probability Broach" the protagonist has to save an alternate universe to get another copy of the cartridge that contains his virtual wife because it is out of print in his reality. It's better than it sounds. L. Neil Smith was kinda like the literary reincarnation/evolution/extrapolation of R. Heinlein.
The rest are the "be careful with what you create" or "Don't play God" Memes. See Also: the current controversy over AI. I consider loving and hating artificial beings to be on the same 'kink' spectrum. YMMV
💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱@nando161
She took a red pill and has left The Matrix, causing glitch in the software.
She took a red pill and has left The Matrix, causing glitch in the software.
David P
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Headline reads: The man who married a hologram in Japan can no longer communicate with his virtual wife
The software that allowed the interaction is no longer supported and the man can no longer interact with the hologram with which he had a relationship for years.
Headline reads: The man who married a hologram in Japan can no longer communicate with his virtual wife
The software that allowed the interaction is no longer supported and the man can no longer interact with the hologram with which he had a relationship for years.
Mr. Completely@nando161 for a modern SF version of this idea, check out short fiction genius Ted Chiang's novella The Lifecycle Of Software Objects. A wonderful writer. His Story of Your Life was the basis for the film Arrival.
cultdev@nando161 great news
@nando161 wondering if he is going to get an afair with a more recent version.
Kotes@nando161 The lifespan of digital is surprisingly short.
Raging Owlbear@kotaro @nando161
I have an older iPad that still works fine but has been rendered 95% useless because you can’t download older versions of programs from the App Store that used to run fine on it.
Meanwhile, I have an Apple //c that still boots and works with floppies that haven’t degraded.
Walled gardens and forced obsolescence is just plain evil.
Michelle-Tessiah@nando161 bloody tragic
Cédric Boismain@nando161 that’s why you should only marry open source.
Roo_44The worst part of this story is the husband is struggling to follow the wife’s wishes to be cremated.
Thats why I stay single.
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Chaotic neutroisHeader of an online article:
The man who married a hologram in Japan can no longer communicate with his virtual wife
The software that allowed the interaction is no longer supported and the man can no longer interact with the hologram with which he had a relationship for years.
Nina Felwitch 
@nando161 the comments here are so mean. This is honestly sad and people are making fun of this person.
@ninafelwitch trolls are everywhere unfortunately, easiest way to see who qualifies for your block list. Some of them wouldn't understand loneliness until they have nobody and nothing or some of them do but have turned into cold hearted idiots from the trauma.
toybox [de]@ninafelwitch @nando161 Plus, it kind of highlights a wider problem, now that companies want to build in software in pretty much everything. I don't really want my lamp, my faucet, my car, my fridge or my pacemaker to stop working because the software company doesn't support old software.
@toybox @ninafelwitch already privacy problems with latest car release and many other tech devices in 2023.. shits fucked.
confusion matrix 
@nando161 This is so sad.
Steven Bodzin@nando161 might explain a lot of relationships I see
Jaime Robertson@nando161 Well at least he didn’t have retinal implants that got bricked.
living edge case
Léonard Bertos 🫏@nando161 that's it we live in ghost in the shell
@leonardbertos blade runner... the matrix... 1984....
Hulk Smash COVID@nando161 .... sometimes you wake up one day and realize the person you thought you loved was really just an illusion all along...
Raven Luni@nando161 Sounds like it must have been a holo relationship