Just how real is the Net?

[Blue]

I can get behind that. It's mostly what I had thought of. What I consider dystopian must be rather mild in comparison to what you think. I'm thinking most of the adherents to the waking world would be those who are too old to want any of this new-fangled technology, those who are financially or medically unable to do so, or those few who still think that reality is better than the virtual world. Every day brings more people over to the Net, and without a drastic change in society, it's unlikely to change. You can see businesses closing left and right, and even those professions which had once flourished are about to go extinct.

I can't imagine there are many people trying to stop it either. Maybe those who made their livings like yourself, ex-business-owners, fanatics, and the older generation. And I can see their voices drowned out by the majority. Many of them will either die, or simply give-up and join the bandwagon.

So, yes, while not everything has gone to shit in reality, it's obvious to all but the most deluded that it will very soon.