Just how real is the Net?

[Sigfried Hunin]

it does seem like it would be possible to jack into the net and get some kind of physical feedback, but maybe it's not a great idea to do that. Maybe such a insanely dramatic brain surgery isn't possible to perform. Perhaps there is a way to do it, but it irreversibly locks you into the Net or something. Maybe you can do it but there's a huge chance of it failing and killing you, or making it so you lose your senses completely. Perhaps the government simply outright outlaws the implant or the writing of scripts that would cater to that.

There is a seas of possibility to write around the population's deadlock to the Net.

And I still disagree that everyone would forsake the outside world if there was no sensational input from the Net.

EDIT: And I think the interesting possibility of people who ARE locked into the net because they DID get a crazy-ass dramatic surgery or are breaking some kind of uber-extreme law. I think the exclusivity of sensation on the net would make it a more interesting concept.