This is what Facebooks wants. Do you?
While this may seem strange to us now, Facebook and other companies are eagerly pursuing augmented reality. They want to implement this type of technology as soon as possible. And if they had the technology to safely and legally implant AR into your eyes today - they would jump on it like a crack addict to a crack rock. This is the future. It may seem strange now. I hope it continues to seem strange in the future... Open your eyes. You don't need AR to see.
First published 9 January 2018
Michael has spent much of his working life online—and much of the rest of it trying to stop that technology taking over. He has thrown a phone into a lake, locked devices in boxes and experimented with long periods offline. He writes about what helped, what failed and how to keep the useful parts of digital life.