Personally my life feels a lot more "real" to me now than it felt to me in the 1970's.
Then I physically isolated myself and buried myself in books.
Now the people I met and talk to online spill over into my life and take me bowling and visit me in hospital. I see a lot of the world thru virtual images but am constantly reminded their are real people at the other end, (almost anytime there is a disaster around the world I will have talked online to someone affected by it, The world is more PERSONAL now, I care more) wheras when I was young the bubble around you was complete and if you didn't already know people through family or geography your options to reach out to people with similar interests were very limited.
To me the world is becoming more real, more intense, every day and with every new way of making connections.
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Date: 2010-07-28 07:22 pm (UTC)Then I physically isolated myself and buried myself in books.
Now the people I met and talk to online spill over into my life and take me bowling and visit me in hospital. I see a lot of the world thru virtual images but am constantly reminded their are real people at the other end, (almost anytime there is a disaster around the world I will have talked online to someone affected by it, The world is more PERSONAL now, I care more) wheras when I was young the bubble around you was complete and if you didn't already know people through family or geography your options to reach out to people with similar interests were very limited.
To me the world is becoming more real, more intense, every day and with every new way of making connections.