Engrossing. A couple of thoughts (1) rates of consumers' tech adaptation. You observe past adaptation to major digital products, e.g. online dating, online credit card purchases. But as digital consumption products grow almost exponentially, this adaptation curve could change back earthwards or otherwise moderate (said as a boomer uninterested in digital saturation). Unplugging from the Matrix, in other words. (2) One of the impacts on the consumer is the availability of premium content at a reasonable price as the attention universe fragments. Your virtual reality future could accelerate this, meaning there will no longer be any reasonable price for those that want premium content, and we will pay unreasonable prices (or content piracy will skyrocket). We are already seeing this of course.
Engrossing. A couple of thoughts (1) rates of consumers' tech adaptation. You observe past adaptation to major digital products, e.g. online dating, online credit card purchases. But as digital consumption products grow almost exponentially, this adaptation curve could change back earthwards or otherwise moderate (said as a boomer uninterested in digital saturation). Unplugging from the Matrix, in other words. (2) One of the impacts on the consumer is the availability of premium content at a reasonable price as the attention universe fragments. Your virtual reality future could accelerate this, meaning there will no longer be any reasonable price for those that want premium content, and we will pay unreasonable prices (or content piracy will skyrocket). We are already seeing this of course.