Humanity, or a race much like our own, is shown becoming helpless and both practically and emotionally dependent on simulation and technology.
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Not infrequently, these same technologies are depicted as trapping humanity in an artificial world in which people are isolated from nature and from the natural process of birth, aging and death.
what looks like a paradise of technology can turn out to be a cage in which we lose touch with both the world and ourselves.
We end up living inside an artificial environment that caters to our desires, in which we constantly manipulate technology in ways that expand our freedom and power, and allow us to transcend many of the limits of existence.
[...] reality will give you a choice when waking up in the morning which simulacra to [...]