It shows us one possible future, which is already, to some degree, our present — a future of authentiphobia in which humanity is afraid of the real thing, and in which simulation and technology are used to help the self in its age-old quest to protect itself from the possibility of an authentic life.
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Contemplating how quickly the present is catching up with these depictions, one has to wonder what kind of people we will be once machines wait on us, construct our imitation realities and offer us whatever we desire, in genuine or simulated form, without delay in gratification? We will be very comfortable, of that there is no doubt. But, as science fiction also tells us, who we become, in response to these challenges will depend on the kind of moral beings we are. It will depend on whether our wisdom keeps pace with our power.
Simulation and technology offer us, individually and collectively, both new opportunities for freedom and traps we can use to refashion our neuroses with more interesting symptoms. How we handle these alternatives is a matter of choice. No machine and no sales pitch should be allowed to make the choice for us.