{"id":4171,"date":"2021-12-28T12:39:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T11:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/28\/virtual-reality-check-looking-back-at-our-tech-predictions-of-years-past\/"},"modified":"2021-12-28T12:39:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T11:39:45","slug":"virtual-reality-check-looking-back-at-our-tech-predictions-of-years-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/28\/virtual-reality-check-looking-back-at-our-tech-predictions-of-years-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual reality check: looking back at our tech predictions of years past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one needs to dwell on 2021, so let\u2019s scroll back and see how right \u2013 or wrong \u2013 we were about the future of tech<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ablink.editorial.theguardian.com\/ss\/c\/TBl-lE0k4WbTlFRn6v-lQXxTpTslqnvUsR2ofAkC00vqkHXqakTSxrykj9mrdACFo11SPMvm9ONAti2JcHBqUgcduObToxycReEYHcTAh6nov_u_7l464yKkl5CZpPeg-CqG3ueb-8UiDZ4dOkhK_xu6BZysaGtGOA-w2_0KTqLsMBLqZrcGelEg-7T5C6DRfMSsX1Wcyrv2RlHjbzIGx0ePxMD7meIXmznkqCFxtrflV_YvxDV9cqXgzdq7c2-9qYTW0MyIMCG7p9sc7wIKCg\/3ha\/N7031ZxvS8Cv2AmB8PHP-g\/h27\/towm4HqYM1UtQe3kzAkaoAWT_zh9HyZuTvPyJCk6JeE\">Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After five seasons of the groundbreaking TV drama Lost, the formula had started to get stale \u2013 to say nothing of the endlessly convoluted mystery at its heart. And so, for the sixth and final series, the producers added a new twist: as well as the flashbacks and flash-forwards that had come to define the show, it introduced the flash-sideways, showing the viewers an alternate reality where the no one was ever marooned on a deserted island.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as we come to the season finale of the Long 2020, with the reintroduction of a global villain viewers thought was defeated and an increasingly convoluted B-plot involving chaos in the top tiers of the British state, I thought I would borrow that concept.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/dec\/28\/techscape-tech-predictions-2021\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ca49498f8abcfbf70f065c452c5f3b981359a3da\/0_264_7921_4755\/master\/7921.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a88e3a64c33385813f8cd369acfda436\" title=\"Virtual reality check: looking back at our tech predictions of years past\" \/>No one needs to dwell on 2021, so let\u2019s scroll back and see how right \u2013 or wrong \u2013 we were about the future of tech<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nAfter five seasons of the groundbreaking TV drama Lost, the formula had started to get stale \u2013 to say nothing of the endlessly convoluted mystery at its heart. And so, for the sixth and final series, the producers added a new twist: as well as the flashbacks and flash-forwards that had come to define the show, it introduced the flash-sideways, showing the viewers an alternate reality where the no one was ever marooned on a deserted island.<br \/>\nAnyway, as we come to the season finale of the Long 2020, with the reintroduction of a global villain viewers thought was defeated and an increasingly convoluted B-plot involving chaos in the top tiers of the British state, I thought I would borrow that concept. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one needs to dwell on 2021, so let\u2019s scroll back and see how right \u2013 or wrong \u2013 we were about the future of tech Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here After five seasons of the groundbreaking TV drama Lost, the formula had started to get stale \u2013 to say &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/28\/virtual-reality-check-looking-back-at-our-tech-predictions-of-years-past\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virtual reality check: looking back at our tech predictions of years past<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}