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If all that talk of #branded #content bums you out, here's something to terrify you: Social media is going to become more and more invasive and more and more a part of our bodies. Last year, Facebook paid billions for Oculus VR, a company gearing up to mass-produce virtual-reality headsets . In May, Google Glass became widely available, if not affordable for most. This means that soon, you'll never have to not be looking at a computer."It'll be like Minority Report without jetpack policemen," said McNayr and Beard. "Everything pushes to targeted video content, localized/personalized/contextualized on truly ubiquitous content screens. Ads, awareness, content, relationships, communication, meetups IRL. Devices fall away—everything you touch is an interface for your communication and content workflows/apps.""When our eyes are a video camera, our ears a microphone, and we are wearing clothes with code in the fibers, we'll likely share our lives on a biorhythmic scale," Goldberg said. "You can imagine waking up from a dream and sending a clip where your friend appeared straight to them, or capturing your dance moves during a club night and uploading it to a gallery of animated avatars."Dominguez is less optimistic: "In ten or 15 years social media will probably just be a 3D hologram of a Coca-Cola bottle angrily shouting at us to buy Coca-Cola, then rewarding us with a meme .GIF if we buy Coca-Cola, or shocking us with a high-voltage electrical current if we don't."Follow Grant Pardee on Twitter."When our eyes are a video camera, our ears a microphone, and we are wearing clothes with code in the fibers, we'll likely share our lives on a biorhythmic scale." –Jen Goldberg.