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Katie Wickens

Twitter founder warns that we're heading toward a VR-obsessed future of humans in 'floating chairs, drinking their food out of straws'

Wall-e tries to communicate with people but they wont even look at him.

Jack Dorsey, the former overlord of the blue bird dunking bonanza that is Twitter, unsurprisingly has opinions on VR. In a recent interview discussing VR's effects on humanity as a whole, it seems there's something dark lurking in the back of his mind. His words are tainted by visions of a future akin to that of Pixar's Wall-E, and I'll be damned if I haven't had the same intrusive, dystopian thoughts from time to time.

"That's the future we're driving towards, with everyone in the floating chairs drinking their food out of straws and constant 24/7 entertainment. You can see that the whole world is headed this way", Dorsey tells interviewers of the Breaking Points YouTube channel (via The Byte).

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