This morning I read a piece in the Financial Times by Jonathan Margolis entitled "Our Virtual Reality Future is Bigger than it Appears." This technology will be consumer ready and on the market sometime next year. In the article Margolis shares this encounter:

The other night I found myself in the emergency room of a Manhattan hospital. As I waited to be seen, I got chatting with a fellow patient, an orthodox Jewish man, in the hat and everything.

These guys live in almost Amish-like isolation from a lot of modern life, but he asked me, as people do, what the next big technology thing will be.

I said VR. “What’s that?” he asked. I did my best to describe it. He stroked his beard as if he was contemplating a Talmudic paradox.

“I don’t know technology but surely that changes everything?” he said eventually.

He even tipped his hat to scratch his head and ponder further.

Virtual Reality technology may prove one of those pivotal moments in society evolution. Quakers may even become enamored with it. Imagine the VR Meeting House and Yearly Meeting possibilities. Strap on a headset and, like magic, you are sitting in a Meeting House preparing for silent worship. Just think about the possibilities. People creating and populating their own worlds and sharing (or not) those worlds with others. There may be those who become so enchanted by the virtual reality that they never want to leave and return to Actual Reality. I think I need to re-read "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline. The winds of change are bellowing up. 

Now, back to Actual Reality. This may prove a very profitable ground floor investment possibility. After all, it is all about the money ... and isn't that just Virtual Reality by another name?