The Games People Play

Access to the planetary mind using ISSU will become so commonplace in the future that almost every part of life will be touched. Being able to instantly access virtually all of human knowledge will give people the ability to excel at many activities that were too difficult to learn in the past. Let's look at how the game of tennis would be learned in the Age of ISSU.

Heading to the tennis court you would put on your 'sports headset' and ask to talk to the knowledge base of Tennis.issu. Tennis.issu would contain all of human knowledge about the game of tennis including everything ever written, every video, and every movie ever done on the subject. If you had played the game before Tennis.issu would recognize you as an author and remind you of what you did right and wrong on your last game.

On the court the 'sports headset' would connect you to MyCoach.Tennis.issu which would begin teaching you the game at the point where you left off the last time. Your headset would have its own video cameras, microphones, and inertial platform that would capture types SE, ES, TM, and TS data and send it back to ISSU so it would know what you are seeing, hearing, and how you are moving. Your tennis racquet would also contain a miniature inertial platform of accelerometers and a wireless transmitter to relay data about the motion of your stroke to ISSU. Across the court would be a fast moving robot ball shooter that can launch a ball at you from any angle, speed, or direction.

MyCoach.tennis.issu would have the latest and most advanced understanding of the intricacies of teaching tennis and be able to guide you through the precise moves you need to learn to become a better tennis player. If you were having trouble with a certain stroke, ISSU would be able to duplicate the precise placement and speed of balls you need to learn to hit better. By using video cameras on your headset and on the robot, ISSU could analyze the trajectory of your return ball and score it on how difficult it would be for another player to hit. After giving you a good training workout on the court, ISSU would give you a rank among all other tennis players so you could choose your human opponents accurately.

Tennis.issu is just one of millions of ways that ISSU could provide expert training for virtually anyone. Sailing.issu could teach you how to sail a specific model of sailboat. Aircraft.issu could teach you to fly an airplane. Doctor.issu could teach you how to treat a specific disease from the best knowledge available in the world. Education on almost any subject will be available for the asking. The era of having people be expert on any subject will end. ISSU will be the only source of expert knowledge needed. The jobs of the future will be in the creation of new knowledge not the remembering of current or old knowledge.