Enhanced Reality
It's becoming incredibly close. In fact many iPhone and smart phone applications can be defined as 'enhanced reality'. Applications like Google maps and Streetview already bridge the distance between the digital world and the physical world in everyday navigation. New technologies are being developed now that will integrate those types of applications with our vision. In 5 to 10 years, as this SBS news article puts it, "our eyes alight for the first time on a skyscraper in a foreign cityscape, a disembodied voice whispers in your ear the phone number of a posh bar on the top floor."
Things will certainly be interesting when you can instantly see someone's Facebook profile just from looking at them at on the bus.
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