Amazon’s new Flow app describes itself as an augmented reality tool to discover more information about objects around you - like a jar of nutella.
Remember when “virtual reality” meant strange new worlds in the ether, being another person and, oh yeah, wild endless cybersex? Now, it’s peanut butter jelly time on your iPhone, all the time.
The other day on Twitter I looked at the New York Post’s predictions about a future New York, where instead of flying cars, the thing we could most look forward to was a longer 7 train. And I noted that Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist who was disappointed with our lack of scifi imaginations, appeared to be right.
So, about Amazon’s Flow, I’ll say it again - Peter Thiel was right.
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