As hot as stories about Artificial Intelligence (AI), augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), blockchain, and the Internet of Things (IoT) have been in recent months, we often can’t help but think of these technologies as a long way off from mainstream adoption.
Movies like Ready Player One and Avengers: Infinity War only perpetuate this perception by mixing real technologies with fantasy, making the tech we wield in the real world seem primitive in the process.