| Anybody who follows the technology in video | | | | your own living room, then most likely that |
| games, or the world of virtual reality technologies, | | | | experience would be far better than any kind of |
| well, it should be self-evident that there is no | | | | experience you could have in the real world. |
| stopping the advances of these innovations, and | | | | Such VR technology would indeed replace drugs |
| one day they will be as real, as real life. Meaning | | | | and alcohol, it would cure depression, and there |
| that in your own living room, you may have | | | | would be no need for any mood altering |
| holographic technologies, 3-D projection, | | | | behavioral drugs such as Ridlin or Prozac. In fact, |
| augmented reality attachments, and | | | | there would be no problem with behavior in |
| surround-a-sound and you won't be able to tell the | | | | school, because your child would be sitting in your |
| difference between what is real and what is not. | | | | living room learning everything he or she would |
| When futurists talk about these things, that is to | | | | ever need to know. |
| say advanced virtual reality technologies, they | | | | Indeed, with such advanced VR innovations, you |
| realize that they have the potential to change the | | | | would never need to go anywhere because you |
| cultural norms of our society, and impact the real | | | | could be they are without leaving. Are you |
| world in both a positive and negative way. The | | | | beginning to see how the future might unfold, and |
| first thing that many futurists believe is that if | | | | why futurists are talking about this now? I hope |
| you can be anything you want, and achieve | | | | you will please consider it. |
| anything you'd like in a virtual reality setting of | | | | |