The goal with this preparation is to get you to think about how the relatively new medium of interactive virtual environments will change the ways we go about our daily lives in the future. Computer technology is fairly recent and the way we interface with computers and the world of information they contain is still fairly primitive. We can expect rapid changes over the next decade or two.

Write down a few points about the following:

• What interesting future vision has popular media portrayed of our interaction with “virtual environments”? What have you seen in films, books, comics, documentaries, games etc.?
• What is your prediction of how our interaction with “virtual environments” will evolve over the next couple of decades?