Balancing Offline Life with Virtual Reality

The virtual world can consume one's life if not balanced with offline interests and relationships. There are significant online communities of individuals not engaged in traditional activities like education or work. Some individuals, like HIKI KOMORI, live as digital hermits. The risk of a totalitarian technocracy, as warned by Postman in Technopoly, where tech elites dominate the population, has not materialized despite the rapid advancement in technology over the years.