There is going to be an AI/AR/VR existential crisis in some people. The status quo is that we interact in 2 distinct ways. First, with a simulacra of a real ob

There is going to be an AI/AR/VR existential crisis in some people. The status quo is that we interact in 2 distinct ways. First, with a simulacra of a real object or people, but at a distance. That's video conferencing, texting, email, (mostly) social media, etc. Second, with simulations, i.e. video games, produced media (i.e. fake people played by real ones, photoshopped everything, post-produced CGI'd, etc.). The difference now is that the wall between these is going to fall, and it will be difficult to distinguish between the two going forward. Culture doesn't require that its basis is real. Some people are going to choose Religion 2.0, where they prefer the mediated experience to the unmediated one, and others will reject it. These two groups can't get along because even if values are shared, there will be a divergence of meaning.