dreaming for me means the subconscious and involuntary activity that your mind engages in during sleep or particularly boring lectures. let me know if this also fits in your definition, Lu Weiquan.

i personally would welcome any type of technologies that would facilitate dreaming in a conscious state. from a personal view, some of my very best and most memorable dreams are in that grey area between sleeping and waking, usually denoted by my alarm clock ripping me up and out of this state to go to school! during those lucid moments i am pretty sure i know in the dream that i am dreaming. this was discussed quite thoroughly in the film Waking Life.

of course types of “dream states” have been explored using assistive technologies (read: LSD, DMT and others) by people like Carlos Castaneda, Aldus Huxley, etc. – this does not mean i condone the use of drugs for recreational purposes (especially in singapore!) but that i mean to say is that people have been looking into this for quite some time

regarding computers that dream, i think it can be argued that in a sense the brain is a carbon-based, digital device so it is only a matter of time till we get silicone to do the same thing. i mean, scientists have already digitally created a rat brain…

… and who are we to say that rats don’t dream of cheese once in a while.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6478542.ece

i absolutely agree that it would raise the quality of living immensely. the main hindrance i can see tho is that in order to provide this seemingly, most basic of human needs for interaction, many other types of infrastructure must be put into place such as access to power, telecommunication services, etc. unfortunately most countries lack these basic necessities that the “1st world” takes for granted.

well, but there is the rest of us who are not living in Singapore. And all those who are either not so web and device savvy to do or want to do all the jailbreaking, hacking, installing and so forth.Well – And still we selfishly enough want the same luxury! What about us?

Can’t there be simply free wifi anywhere – at least within given city limits? As some kind of basic service, like running water, street lights and canalization. Arguably wifi might not be as basic and fundamentally needed for a functioning society as canalization….but its getting there And still it would definitely raise the quality of living immensely. And if having the choice – I’d rather pay a monthly fee for city wide wifi than for supposedly state funded TV broadcast with more than lame and out of date programming.