Apple is getting all kinds of attention today with the announcement of its new headset the Vision Pro, which only costs $3,499. It’s a wraparound pair of goggles that uses augmented reality (AR) to present a whole operating system controlled by gestures and eye movements. It’s the future and it’s here! Right? …That might not be a good thing, and it could spell a troubling shift in our society, per one popular YouTuber.
Marko, who runs the WhiteBoard Finance YouTube channel, spelled out a troubling dystopic future now that the Vision Pro is upon us.
“If you are excited about strapping a TV to your head, you are missing the plot of being a human being. I read “Ready Player One” in 2017, and realized that this is eventually how society will be within the next 20 years or so.”
Marko’s vision of the future is that people will be “generally unhealthy” and “lower to middle class” and use headsets to “escape to be whatever they want to be online because their actual life isn’t fulfilling.”
That’s not all prophet Marko had to say either. “Technology is eroding the things that make us human,” says the man who looks like he has a timeshare to sell you. So what else does genius/savior of mankind Marko have to say?
“Great opportunity to launch a tech/social media detox business, however.” How does he know? Does Marco have some prescient insight into the future that us mere mortals don’t have? Or did he just take a popular story and extrapolate it to our future in the laziest way possible?
The idea that people like Marko think they know anything about anything because they run a YouTube channel is the real reason society is going to erode. What a lazy train of thought from ol’ Marko.
Next he’s going to say the ocean gets you wet if you jump into it! Thanks, Marko, what would we do without you.