FUTURE HUMAN

The Softer Side of Technofuturism

Five futurists on how immersive technologies will blur the boundaries between us

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OneZero

9 min readJul 9, 2018

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Illustrations by Kelsey Wroten

Immersive technologies toy with your senses and have the unique ability to catapult you into a new reality. Inside a virtual reality (VR) headset, like Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, we become fully immersed in a computer-generated…

Karen Emslie

Written by Karen Emslie

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OneZero

Location-independent journalist and essayist. Stories in Wired, National Geographic (digital), The Atlantic, SmithsonianMag, Aeon, GOOD, Huck, and more.

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