It’s a pet peeve, and I shouldn’t care that much but… Could we kill ‘virtual’ when used as ‘mediated’? Virtual is about not being real: it applies to stories, d

It’s a pet peeve, and I shouldn’t care that much but… Could we kill ‘virtual’ when used as ‘mediated’? Virtual is about not being real: it applies to stories, dreams, projects. Skype (or whatever cryptographically more relevant version Snowden will use) is as real as a phone, or a TV interview, and I don’t remember anyone describing a phone call or radio as ‘virtual’.