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Back To The Future

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Virtual Opacity In the film Back to the Future 2, the character George McFly travels 30 years into the future from the year 1985. The film depicts the year of 2015 with flying cars, gravity-defying hover-boards, and real-life holograms. Of course, that is not the reality today. However, the reality of our lives has changed significantly from 30 years ago just as it will be different 20 years from now. This change is gained mainly by technology, which in turn has changed the way we relate to, and communicate with one another. This includes the erosion of boundaries and the access to greater amounts of background information about one another, even if we have never met them in person. This erosion of real and virtual boundaries will change our societal consciousness on several levels. In addition, the way people define themselves 20 years from now will be far different than the way they define themselves today. …show more content…

This screen time takes away from real-life experiences and places us in the “Virtual World”. When I was a kid, playing together meant actually physically being together and doing something physically together. As a parent, I am constantly nagging my son to get off of his iPad and go and do “something else”. What I inevitably hear as a reply is: “Like what?” Just for a bit of background information: my son has plenty of friends, loves sports, and enjoys being outside. That being said, when he’s hooked into a game, it’s very difficult to get him to come back to reality. And when he’s playing certain games, like Clash Of Clans, he is playing remotely with a core group of friends whom he regularly plays sports with. So, the boundary of playing together has now been

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