2010: hardware version of these appears in glasses, adjusting what you see in real-time. alcohol consumption drops 40%, prolonging the lives of millions. Huge population boom occurs. 1-10 scale of attractiveness now goes to 11.
2020: global warming forces us to walk around naked. the glasses become mandatory. 40% of all software engineers now employed as virtual fashion/body engineers. Linden Labs is the larget corporation in the world.
2050: the glasses are now implants and control all sensory input; a few hackers then find out that for the last 10 years everyone has been eating slimy green algae and living huddled together in a giant pit, with the rest of the planet free of humanity -- all Earth's troubles was fixed in software -- controlled by small group of Python hackers.
2020: global warming forces us to walk around naked. the glasses become mandatory. 40% of all software engineers now employed as virtual fashion/body engineers. Linden Labs is the larget corporation in the world.
2050: the glasses are now implants and control all sensory input; a few hackers then find out that for the last 10 years everyone has been eating slimy green algae and living huddled together in a giant pit, with the rest of the planet free of humanity -- all Earth's troubles was fixed in software -- controlled by small group of Python hackers.
For an actual great story in similar lines about perception and reality, (I hope I don't spoil too much), read Stanislaw Lem's "The Futurological Congress" -- http://www.amazon.com/Futurological-Congress-Memoirs-Ijon-Ti...