In the near future, according to proud scientists, we'll wear "Internet contact lenses" and so, with a simple blink, we'll be able to create a completely virtual reality around us. Eventually even the sense of touch will be perfectly simulated for us to feel what we are imagining to touch. Incredibly interesting, mind-blowing...Wow! It seems that several virtual worlds already exist on the Internet, with millions of subscribers, who can choose and create an “ideal” life, totally different from their own. A scary image indeed, where human beings will be less and less who they are and, instead of trying to improve themselves, they will just wear a cap or lenses and live a fake life in a fake world. Author Anthony de Mello spoke of "a paper life in a paper world" more than thirty years ago. Prophecy? Now it is not paper but the concept still stands.
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