If you haven’t read the last two posts, do that first before you read this one. While new avenues of media and enhanced interface possibilities for virtual goods sounds nice, there’s a whole other realm of applications for this kind of technology. If the technology develops, these are sort of a given. Physical items are […]
Why We Don’t Have VR Headsets
VR headsets are one of those hardware applications that seems like it holds such promise and wonder, but has never got off the ground. In that way it’s like the flying car. Both of these technologies are perfectly capable of being produced today, and the demand for them would certainly be too, but they both […]
Future Shock
I’ve been rereading Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, and it seems odd how much of it is still relevant and how much falls flat. This won’t be a critique of the predictions made by a book that’s now 37 years old*, don’t worry about that. What interests me more is how little of the future it […]
The Future Is Now
Why don’t we see the marvels of human engineering? I guess you could ask the same about the natural world, but human engineering has, to me, a sort of immediacy to it, a sense of pride and promise, especially when you look at everything that has yet to come. A quick peek at what life […]