[Tokhtamish]

Is it that in an increasing wired, cyber potato, couch potato society, people suspect that few will feel the need of heroic effort to tranform their "real" lives. If you can simply plug into cyber experiences the way people go online these days, who needs reality ? Reality only has disappointments and other agendas and risk. Twenty years from now porn will consist of plugging into your brain the memory and experience of f*cking Miss November. So who will need to bother with a less than perfect real woman ? Even now, how marriages are breaking up because of online porn and cyber affairs ?

Twenty years from now will advanced societies produce human beings capable of heroic effort ?

[brbethke]

Yes. It just won't be American society. Our nation will have hundreds of millions of men with really strong thumbs and really bad teeth.

[js1138]

If you can simply plug into cyber experiences the way people go online these days, who needs reality ?

One of my first SF reads was Heinlein's "Door Into Summer".