Changes. Cross Reality Will Change Your Life, But at What Cost to Your Privacy? Yesterday we explored an emerging trend called "Cross Reality", one term for when sensor networks meet online virtual worlds.
As this trend becomes more common over the next few years (and it will, as both Web-connected sensors and virtual reality ramp up), what are the implications on how people use the Web? How will it change our interactions in both real and virtual life? In this post we'll explore some of these issues and offer some ideas: for example a bookstore that offers you personalized, contextual information on your mobile phone, in real time and with virtual reality.
Facebook’s Gone Rogue. Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination.
It’s time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed. Facebook used to be a place to share photos and thoughts with friends and family and maybe play a few stupid games that let you pretend you were a mafia don or a homesteader.