The plane already was convulsing by the
time the “please fasten seatbelt” sign came on. Dark, foreboding clouds
filled the sky. We must have been flying right into a storm. All I could
think of was that opening scene in Lost where the plane splits in half. We rode out the turbulence and made an uneventful landing. As the
plane came to a stop on the tarmac, I pulled off my goggles, and the
virtual world of the cabin disappeared. I was in a conference room in the offices of River, a startup incubator in San Francisco’s SoMa district, miles from the airport.