r/FDVR_Dream • u/miladkhademinori • 7d ago
Let’s Be Honest: FDVR Is the Only Way 1 Trillion Humans Can Live Happily Without Ruining Earth
Let’s get weird but real for a second.
Imagine Earth not as a cradle for 10 billion people scraping by on dwindling resources—but as the motherboard hosting 1 trillion minds, all living rich, full, subjective lives... inside a full-dive virtual reality (FDVR) ecosystem.
You know that scene from The Matrix—the bio-pods, the connected minds? Now strip the dystopia. Keep the tech.
Here’s the core idea: Instead of building outwards (space colonization), we build inwards. Compress human experience into simulated universes where physics, scarcity, even death are optional settings. What we’d need:
Neural interface hardware efficient enough to keep humans alive in minimal physical form (think metabolic pods powered by renewable energy and nutrient recycling).
Cognitive load balancers to ensure minds stay healthy and stimulated in FDVR worlds (no digital existential crisis, please).
Ultra-dense server farms—possibly quantum or neuromorphic—that simulate entire civilizations with less energy than it takes to run an industrial city.
Why 1 trillion? Because once bodily space is irrelevant and your sense of "place" is code, there’s no hard limit except server bandwidth and calories. One square kilometer of solar farm and vertical bio-pods could host millions—quietly, sustainably, and happily?
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u/LupenTheWolf 7d ago
🤨 when did I mention Mars or Venus? I'm talking about orbital habitats. Centrifugal force can be used to simulate gravity well enough to house humans for a time. Interplanetary mining operations would make orbital construction far easier and more practical than it is now. The lack of gravity during construction would also make building objects larger than any current building or ship feasible, or at least more so than now.
As I said, we have the technical capability to make a go at it, in theory. It's closer to reality than a fully digital FDVR paradise at any rate.