Sight, sound and sense

Reading a book can be like watching the movie, but a lot better with some imagination. Life experience also helps, because unless you have actually been in a similar setting or experienced a similar situation, you loose some of the intended atmosphere to a particular scene, whether it be in a book or a movie. For example, if you are watching soldiers in training in a movie, or reading about it, if you have been a soldier in training, it changes the way you experience the scene. You can almost get the senses of smell and touch involved in the experience. However, if you have not been there done that, the most part of the atmosphere is lost in translation.

With that in mind, imagine the future of entertainment being able to include in the experience, the actual atmosphere to a level of our 5 senses, but without direct contact. Imagine watching a movie, or reading a book while the atmosphere around you changes to suit the part. Darkness falls, or snow blows in and cold air fills the room, the scene changes with a chapter end to go to a desert, hot and dry. The list is endless, but just imagine it, imagine the possibilities for education.

But, what kind of impact would that have on us socially? What would future society look like in that future? How would it impact tourism for example? It starts to look quite scary if you think about it.