Motherboard – The Virtusphere
Except for lasers, no future technology has fallen as tragically short of society’s expectations as virtual reality. While the media promised us a limitless array of holodecks and BCIs and full-body simulations to divert the masses’ attention from their own dismal fealty to the corporate-cyborgian over-state, all we ended up with were clunky, 8-bit goggles [...]