Article #1
Most agree: Remote work via VR will become the norm.
I am very excited about the idea that VR is capable of washing away physical locational boundaries in many fields, but the working sphere seems to be affected primarily. It makes up a great deal of any company’s budget to maintain and rent offices and buildings and because in capitalist society cost-efficiency happens to be a major game changer, I believe that virtual working spaces have to overtake at some point in future.
Least agree: Gathering experience and access will be more important than gathering wealth.
This statement assumes that people will spend the majority (if not all) of their time in the virtual world gathering virtual experiences which I personally doubt as I think the more exciting VR experiences will get, the more time people will need off it. Have you ever found yourself willing to take a quiet brake on your own after having good adventurous/noisy/exciting/overwhelming time? If yes, this would mean that your personal space will still matter to you as well as every material object that decorates or inhabits it. So people might still care about spending money on material goods at least to get some fancy meals ordered and some softest sofa in the corner of their space.
Article #2
According to Kelly, digitalization of our reality is inevitable. He brings up some fundamental examples of the biggest tech corp-s implementing digital mapping and other techniques to support his claim. In my opinion, the progress in this process will go as fast as the rate of development of AR technologies, but not faster than that.