Technology vs. Reality--The Epic Battle

In one corner, we have reality, which is...well...what is real. Tangible things. Natural information and cultural information fall within these categories. We can see nature. We can hold a leaf in our hand. We can see culture. We can hold our cultural symbols in our hand and embrace our language. In the other corner, we have technology. Uh oh. While we can hold gadgets, we cannot really encompass the idea of technology. "If technology can progress, it will progress" with or without the human race (according to some).

Borgmann sees technology as a threat to natural and cultural information--that technology will wipe out these two altogether. If you think about technology from a gamer's perspective, isn't that what the creators want? To build an entire virtual reality? Another world where one can escape the mundane, day to day, business suit and strap on some leather armor and defeat a mighty dragon. I don't believe that virtual reality will ever be able to overtake the "real" reality. But people can use it to escape from this world and enter another...