Augmented Reality as another re-envisioning of the future that never happened

As children, many people were brought up on the science-fiction of the 1970′s and 1980′s. There seemed to be a bounty of promise in this vision of a 3D virtualized, “everything at your fingers” holographic world. ”Augmented Reality” seems to be another attempt to reconstruct the idyllic science-fiction fantasies of many adult’s childhood and less [...]