As part of the Feb 28, 2017 Show&Tell: VR/AR event, we asked 3 people to each give a 5 minute talk on how the featured technology will impact our lives 3-5 years from now. One of them was Ian Nott, co-founder and CTO of Aetho. This ATDC startup has unleashed Thrive, a telepresence immersive application that allows participants to converse naturally, as if in person face-to-face. Ian is a dropout of Savannah College of Art and Design and seeks to answer the question: Will humanity take control of these powerful forces and use them for good, or will we be left in something akin to 1984?