Just how real is the Net?

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I always considered that it'd be a place that would put reality to shame with its grandeur. A place where, quite literally, dreams can come true. Worse than any drug on the market, it could stimulate feelings of contentment, happiness, and even pleasure with very little input. Which is what makes it so dangerous. It's addicting to the extreme, and with hardly any regulations placed on its use, it's become more than just a pastime or occasional diversion. There are people out there who would kill for one more hour on The Net. The decadent, having access to better technology, would of course become even more detached from the people and squalid in their money. Hell, many of them may have fallen to the ranks of the impoverished through too much attachment to this virtual heaven.