warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Can't beat the real thing? Of course you can. It would feel exactly the same, only you could lead a much happier life there. Reality is a set of sensory data processed by your brain, nothing more.
1. I am skeptical about how easy it would be to simulate something like that to perfection.
2. The real thing IS the real thing. People are going to start to miss the "real experience", even if it feels almost exactly the same.
Having said that, I do forsee some problems once virtual reality becomes close enough to reality. I don't think we'll have any sort of collapse, but we'll see a definite paradigm shift. (ooh, I said paradigm shift)