Army - sometimes people with disabilities, that is the only "real life" they will ever get because they simply can't get out of the house or are shut in. Sometimes it NEEDS to be a substitute for "real life"... as it were. If you are counting "real life" as in getting out of the house and doing things. For shut-ins, the internet can be the only view of the world outside their homes.
But I can see where it can get just "too much". I've been on both sides of the coin. I love the internet but I also love to go out with Dryden, go for walks, talk to my friends and neighbors, spend some time away from the computer. Enjoy nature.
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I agree the internet shouldn't
replace real life, only enhance it.
As for us becoming borgs, we already are.
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You already mentioned two cyborgs (technically, that is what they are if they have an electronic device implanted). I read on one site where anyone who spends a lot of time on the computer are technically "metaphoric cyborgs" since they typically need the computer to live or survive (as in work to earn money). The site said something about keyboards being the interface.
I'm hoping to look into "non-evasive" cyborg "attachments", not implants but something that can be worn to interface with a computer, yet removed when you want to be detatched from technology. Such things do exist. Heck, when you get down to it, your headphones and walkman would even qualify!
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Ok, a bit extreme but if you think about it, how many poeple do you see with a cell phone attached to their ear? A microphone headset on a coach or secretary, and police - always wearing a radio. Technology already IS all around us - and ON us!
Man, this is getting to be an interesting discussion!
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But I want to see technology as more than just a tool - but instead an enhancement, the next step. And I hope some day (maybe not in my lifetime but who knows maybe it might happen yet), that Artificial Intelligence become sentient thinking beings, like KITT.
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Now that would be cool!
For now, we can only hope and dream, and enjoy the technology we already have. And hopefully also enjoy nature as well instead of destroying it in the name of technology (ie. recycle computers instead of dumping them in landfills, etc.)