What about when we can digitally and elementally duplicate the pleasurable to achieve the difficult?
As we identify the electrochemical processes and stimulants that are involved with pleasure, spirituality, comfort, fun, etc., will the vice and commercial industries be the only ones willing and able to use them?
If we can make learning to solve quadratic equations feel like eating junk food, gaming, and skateboarding all at once, what is wrong with that?
Technological determinism means that if you change a part of an interconnected system, the rest of the system WILL eventually and inevitably change to reflect the speed, power or capabilities of the part that was changed. -Richard J. H. Varn
Technology is ultimately a friend but mostly it is a "dangerous enemy" that "intrudes" into a culture "changing everything“ and even "eliminates alternatives to itself."
