Facebook's Horizon Workrooms promises a virtual future of teal despair

Horizon is one of the creepiest and most obviously objectionable product ideas I've heard from Facebook in a while. Here's hoping that no employer of mine decides to make use of anything like this!

This a remarkable op/ed, and very quotable.

>"But strapped into our headsets, with every head-twitch relayed? Our real environment carefully screened out? It is the crating of our intellect, the battery farming of our soul, the office cubicle formed into a perfect seal."

Indeed!

"The one thing you do not get in an office meeting room is horizon. You might get milestones and goals and targets, but horizons? They're for making you wonder what if, asking what's over there, dreaming enough to go and look. Facebook's answer is an airless, corporate, unmitigated office. There is no horizon. There is no escape. There will be no dreams."

I'm trying to picture how Reggie Perrin would react to this abomination.