subject: Believe In Extreme Realities [print this page] And it is not at all implausible to suggest that most new technology in the future will come from virtual spaces, not 'real' ones. The energy configurations of the mind will remain the same after all, and the material brain will be fused with silicon hardware. And we wouldn't be slaves like in 'The Matrix.' We'd be fused with AI, but we'd be the master.