Emerging technologies are creating portals for moving between the physical and the digital. F By Bill Nottingham credit amed sci-fi writer William Gibson didn't invent the verb evert, which means to turn inside out. But he was the first to apply it to the blurring of lines between the physical and digital realms. The plot of his 2007 thriller Spook Country involves the then-novel concept of locative media, digital content delivered to a device depending on the user's location. A character in the story notes that with such tech, cyberspace (a word Gibson did invent) " is everting. " C TA . t e c h / i 3 i3_0121_24-27_Feature_XR_AugmentedReality.indd 25 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 25 12/9/20 3:20 PMhttps://cta.tech/Resources/i3