In a telling cultural moment, a major VR company recently unveiled its “horizon worlds” with bright, cartoonish landscapes and floating dance parties. On the same day, the top stream on Reallife.cam was a black-and-white feed of a man in Reykjavik shoveling snow off his driveway. The contrast could not be starker. We are being sold two futures: one of infinite distraction, and one of quiet attention.
In a telling cultural moment, a major VR company recently unveiled its “horizon worlds” with bright, cartoonish landscapes and floating dance parties. On the same day, the top stream on Reallife.cam was a black-and-white feed of a man in Reykjavik shoveling snow off his driveway. The contrast could not be starker. We are being sold two futures: one of infinite distraction, and one of quiet attention.
