From a Futurologist
August 6, 2007 by Q
Lesley Gavin is a Futurologist. Yes Virginia, there are such people who have such jobs.
As new technologies integrate more closely into our real lives she considers the developing social norms that go alongside this.
Gavin sees a future in which virtual worlds will also become integrated with real environments. For example, buildings and public spaces may offer virtual world counterparts and, instead of viewing these virtual worlds on devices, we would use active contact lenses .
For example, you may be walking along the street and get a call from someone in a virtual world, and instead of talking on your mobile phone, you instantaneously switch into the mixed reality environment
“Alongside these developments we will have fully networked homes with embedded sensors. These sensors will capture movement and speech, so that when you are travelling, and away from loved ones you could pop in your virtual contact lenses and step into your very own virtual home world.”
Fine, fine, but can I virtually feed my cat?
The Tech Lab :Lesley Gavin
