d walked exceedingly fast to the kitchen and prepared food much as the Sims do in fast forward. I then went back to bed and read another fifteen pages before trying to sleep. I got almost no sleep that night though I kept looking for that bubble above my head with the little Z’s. Now whether this was a chemical response or was psychosomatic I cannot be sure, but the effects were there all the same. These effects are not uncommon and although not everyone suffers from them as much as the young, there is definitely an effect on everyone’s life. We lose the ability to concentrate, to make conversation, to write, and to function in a world that does not depend on a sequence of on’s and off’s. When we live in an alternative world lit by cathode rays, we dwell in and visit ‘the real world’ when we want something different, but what about those people who like to be comfortable in a static state? When will they visit this quickly fading ‘real world’? ...
