In the not too distant future, Enhanced Reality will suffuse many aspects of our lives. A set of glasses containing a micro GPS unit, hooked up to the 3D net, will overlay the real world with graphics and text. W. Gibson predicts that artists will be able to produce work that injects itself into the common surrounds, that interest groups will have a channel that you can tune into to have all the aborted foetuses of the last week march down the street at you, and you’ll be able to take a tour of famous public deaths and watch River Phoenix writhing around on the pavement over and over again. Tourist channels will help with information in foreign cities and German car manufacturers will very quickly add the feature to the windscreens of their vehicles. All of a sudden, texting while you’re driving will seem like a sin from the dark ages.
“Hey, did you hear about Terry?”
“Nuh.”
“His beemer’s ER unit got lag.”
“Oh. Wow.”
“Yeah, he thought he was using a drive through bank and ended up in a Chinese restaurant at lunch time and was badly burnt by a pork bun in the lap.”
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