or lived another life. In time, as virtual realityimproves, maybe we will get the chance to do just that by strapping ona set of goggles and a sensory suit. Using this technology we could beable to choose a desired identity and act it out as our imaginationwants us to. But what if that virtual world is better than the realworld?John Suler, with a PhD in psychology, at Department of Psychology atRyder University states in the website ^ Computer and CyberspaceAddiction^ that ^People become "addicted" to the Internet, or act outpathologically in cyberspace, when they have dissociated it from theirf2f life. Their cyberspace activity becomes a world unto itself. Theydon't talk about it with the people in their f2f life. It becomes awalled-off substitute or escape from their life.^It seems like the virtual reality technology is inevitable. ^Peopleinitially use technology to do what they do now-but faster. Then theygradually begin to use technology to do new things. The new thingschange life-styles and work ^styles. The new life-styles andwork-styles change society^.and eventually technology.^(Fubini^s law)Before we know it, virtual reality might be as usual in contemporarylife, as television has been for decades. We will be presented with anew way to escape from reality, which seems to be ten times as powerfulas previous developments. We will open doors to fascinating mazes, thatsome of us may never come out of. Worlds that we don^t even want tocome out of because it appears better than the chaos we daily aresurrounded with, the real world. It might even be another addiction. Oras Jerry Garcia put it ^they made LSD illegal. I wonder what they^regoing to do with this stuff.^...
