As a music tech writer, Linda Jacobson began exploring digitized sound and visual media in 1983, when MIDI debuted, then helped launch and edit HyperMedia magazine, and began covering virtual reality in 1989. Hyper morphed into cyber with Linda’s production work on the first CyberArts conference, where she met cybertribal arts ensemble D’Cuckoo. In the next decade Linda authored the influential books CyberArts and Garage Virtual Reality, served as co-founding editor of Wired, wrote patent applications for Xerox PARC and Mark Bolas’ Fakespace, then became the world’s first professional VR Evangelist, at Silicon Graphics. She also co-founded the Bay Area’s first VR user group, and toured with D’Cuckoo as road manager and live motion-capture performer. Today Linda helps improve the lives of older adults through the use of immersive and smart-home tools. She has continued to work in VR while raising 3 sons in Berkeley. Linda is director emeritus of Virtual World Society and a member of IEEE’s newest workgroup, Technology Standards for the Aging.