Starting in 2025, a new generation steps into the world: Generation Beta – the kids who’ll see AI as casually as we (me, a Gen X’er) once saw flip phones. Their growing up will be characterised by hyper-personalised education, voice activated and Augmented Reality everything, and a planet grappling with massive climate challenges. And that’s […]
Originally published via Singaporean Arts Organisation, Meshminds. Titled ‘In Conversation with Matt O’Neill, Futurist‘. What inspires you about your work as a Futurist? Far from being the soothsayer, staring into the misty distance, my view is that our future is a function of the things we do today: it’s not unchangeable, and we all play […]
“This is what virtual reality holds out to us – the possibility of walking into the constructs of the imagination.” – Terence McKenna Most of us love words as they let us conjure up ideas in the imagination. I remember well the telling of campfire horror stories as a Boy Scout. The storyteller had us […]
There’s a lot of talk in marketing circles about the potential for ‘Augmented Reality’ (AR). Unlike its more totally immersive cousin, Virtual Reality, AR creates new layers of experience over what we already see in the real world. Wikipedia defines AR as ‘a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements […]
