A long time ago, we started moving out of our lives, first into a distorted reality (makeup, plastic surgery, botox, the life of a super star on FB and Instagram), where we stopped looking like ourselves, and then into virtual reality.
There are several films on this topic, where a man sits at home behind the monitor of his machine, and in the real world his life is lived by a perfect avatar.
We just have to move that avatar to the digital world and there it is, the migration is complete, we can turn off the man. No longer needed...
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Just imagine going on holiday virtually, where everyone you interact with looks just the way you want them to, and says what you want them to.
Augmented reality - no fat on the beaches.
If it wasn't sad, it would have been funny to me when an acquaintance said: "Why would I travel somewhere, when everything is on Google Earth".
I don't live in a virtual world. When I want to touch, see or smell something, I do it live.
And related to the travel experience, there is a verse of a song by a famous author, which I often quote when someone mentions a tour with Google Earth or Instagram vlogs "They will tell you about the voyage, those who did not raise the anchor..."