I am very familiar with this thought process... "being totally hooked in is evil and detrimental because movies show me they are!" -- but then you think about i

I am very familiar with this thought process... "being totally hooked in is evil and detrimental because movies show me they are!" -- but then you think about it... what if your life IS just better in the virtual reality? How is that a bad thing? You are here to have an experience, logging on and having that experience elsewhere is fine if it isn't destroying lives around you. Then you think 40 or 50 years out with undetectable differences between virtual reality and real-reality and you wonder if at some point we did get lost in a virtual world we created for ourselves a la Matrix... how would we know? You could also imagine a world within a world once the virtual world is so real it isn't as fun. Endless recursion :)