What kind of future does the non-virtual world have?
More and more, we relate to the world and other people over the internet and through other portable visual communication devices. We can video-conference instead of traveling somewhere. We can Facebook all day or fluther all day instead of finding real world friends or visiting real world friends in person. The internet makes socializing much easier.
My daughter spent a lot of the summer online, on Facebook, presumably with her friends. She does this during the rest of the year at night, when she isn’t in school, but it expands during the summer. My son was online studying tablet PCs and DSLR cameras as well as watching his favorite TV shows. He did come out and go crabbing when we were on vacation in Chincoteague. Both went to the beach, but wanted to do little else.
Do we need the real world so much any more? Can we do what we need to without going out and doing physical things or interacting with the real world? Do we really need “face time” any more? If so, why? How much? The same as always, or less?
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Nope. Eventually, we’ll all upload digital copies of our minds into the matrix, and Wall-e can spend the rest of eternity burying the garbage we left behind…
Soon, we’ll only see and talk to people to look for jobs and at work lol.
I’m not good at these “What’s gonna happen in the future” questions, but it’s obvious our embrace of technology will definitely change our lives in some significant way.
Look at this another way. Since it harder to get familiar with someone in real life or when you have to endure some of them it’s much easier just to leave a few comments here and there. Easier because you have time to think a bit before posting and such. Not to mention it requires less time to socialize than real life where you both need the same free time AT THE SAME TIME. Online world offers more possibilities because you keep in touch easier. Oh and those who like to use visual communication at some point after getting familiar with the rest will want to hang outside too.
Though I’ve met a lot of people that after joining a social event all they could think was getting home and “share” with the rest how cool was that particular meeting or what other stuff they did here and there.
The non virtual world is a mess; overcrowded, dirty, polluted and downright dangerous. I interact with it as little as possible. There is not much you can get from the outside world that you cannot get online in a cleaner, brighter and more perfect form. Until the power goes off.
The non-virtual world has a bright and sunny future (at least in my life). The virtual world consumes maybe 2% of my day, if that. My daughter and I enjoyed the outdoors this holiday weekend. We didn’t spend the entire time in front of a computer. You can put limits on the amount of time your children spends online.
I don’t really think the non-virtual world is in any danger. So what if we can make friends online? We still want friends in our real lives. We want someone to touch and someone to go out with and someone who really knows what it is like to be us. And really, I don’t think we are going to stop wanting these things anytime soon.
I do agree that as our technology makes things more vibrant and livable, some of us are going to fade into it. But I don’t think we can really be fulfilled, as yet, by the internet. I don’t really think we ever will be.
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