When Oculus Rift sold out to Facebook for $2 billion, some of us raised eyebrows. A huge Kickstarter crowd had given Oculus money in its early days, and now they were being left behind. Kickstarter has a reply for jilted supporters: "there are things that are more important than money." How kind!

Rupert Murdoch, the same futurist who bought MySpace and funded The Daily, is turning his head to tech's next great moment—literally! Here he is with his face stuck in an Oculus Rift, perhaps using virtual reality to reenact Eric Schmidt having sex with his wife.

In Fortune magazine, Erin Griffith put together a chart exposing "Silicon Valley's single degree of separation," where A-listers are "just an adviser, an investor, a co-founder, an acquirer, or a director away from another."

Mark Zuckerberg's $2 billion buyout of Oculus Rift is just the latest step in Big Tech's creepy march from software to sci-fi: Google and Facebook have dumped billions into companies that have nothing to do with their original projects in search or social. Relentlessly, the two companies are pushing toward a dystopian future in which privacy is null and we wear social networks on our faces.