As our world intersects more and more with mixed reality, augmented reality, and virtual reality. I feel that there will be an intersection of the realities with physical reality in the way that we interact with the world.
Nowadays, I would consider the world to be interacting through a digital reality. Currently, how we interact with the world, especially in metropolis cities such as Shanghai, Shenzhen, or Tokyo, we revolve around the phone and mobile device. In China, there has been a push of having the digital become integrated within the lives of people. We can understand this through how people move and interact in the world, be it WeChat Pay, delivery apps, social media, and even health codes… Everything. When this happens, our understanding of interacting with the world has already been changed and evolved compared to China 10 years ago.
In such a fast changing society, I feel that the future of reality is coming and it will become implemented faster than we expect. It won’t merely be as simple as the digital reality phase in which we still feel within the physical reality, but it will be augmented reality as the central form of reality. When we move to the counter, we may see the digital reality in 3D space. When we complete homework, we may have an educational interface that can be seen through glasses. This brings in positives such as more articulation for people in education and daily life. It can make things more efficient as well as provide more personalized assistance to others, however this sort of world will also cause issues of inequality as well as leave hundreds of millions of people “left behind”. I remember that there were statistics saying that over 20% of the elderly in China do not have a mobile phone at all. When there is such a disconnect, it scares me to wonder how many others will be left behind in this rapidly developing society.
Who will be left to resolve physical world issues?
How will society be more complicated and intersected?
How will the “left behind” stay in society?
The bad. That’s that.
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