THE FUTURIST
VR ALL GOING ON A SUMO HOLIDAY
Stuff ’s crystal-baller has been on an extended vacation… but Matthew Griffin’s break was never going to be normal
As 3.5 billion people entered the first lockdown while governments closed airspace and issued more quarantine notices than tax receipts, many of us missed out on the annual ritual of displacing German beach towels.
But with planes parked and hotel pools eerily empty, travel companies have been thinking about a future holiday utopia where the only worries are deciding whether to play golf on the flight or get flirty with the airline’s AI assistant. More on that in a moment… but first, don’t you want to know what I got up to during my Stuff sabbatical?