Overreality – How Tech Is Betting on Your Discontent with Reality

Tech companies know that for many of us reality now sucks: that's how they hope you'll slap a pair of giant goggles on your face.

Mindfulness apps are popular because, for many people, reality now sucks: their day is loud, smelly, cluttered, and full of jerks.

Tech companies know that.

That's precisely how they bet that you'll slap a pair of giant goggles on your face at the end of your day: to get away from it.

A Shadow Watching Reality. Chicago, 2024.

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