Becoming Digital!!!!

Becoming Digital
Our society is continuously becoming digital. New technologies appear every day; constantly moving us toward a world of total immersion in electronics. Print media is out of style and antiquated; replaced with digital media.
Digital media has the advantage of receiving a constant influx of information. Online news sources are updated throughout the day. People (or web crawling computers) discover the most abstract news articles and sources and bring them together on aggregate sites to make viewing easier for the average user.
It seems like in our modern society, the internet and media in general are shifting towards providing an individual with information and news that is specifically tailored to his interests. Already my Google home page is customized to provide me with the information I deem essential to start my day. The news I want in fields I’m interested in is delivered to me right when I open my browser. Websites have already started tracking personal preferences, returning news or items which you were previously interested in; where will it stop? EPIC 2014 already made the eerie “prediction” that websites can and will start aggregating fake data more to interest its readers than to actually provide information. Legitimate news sources will be beat out by this sensationalist fake reporting.
And, in the future, if we are absorbed by this barrage of media, living our lives constantly immersed in digital words, where is the line drawn? How far can we step back from reality? Would we ever actually let ourselves get to the point of immersion in eXistenz? Actually removed from reality in a digital world that seems so real you start to question your own feelings?
A lot of ideas we have discussed and the examples we have watched demonstrate a general fear for the future of technology; a fear of total immersion. However, I have more faith in the human race. I don’t see humans losing themselves and losing reality in technology. I still and always will see it as an aid, not an escape. So far, the internet has been built up and molded on convenience. Most new features exist to make things faster and easier to access, not to take away a sense of reality. And this won’t change anytime soon.
We are the masters of technology, not the other way around. In most people’s modern lives, human//human interactions make up the bulk of our memories and experiences. Something drastic would have to happen to our society and values to change our goals toward total digital immersion and I don’t believe that something is going to happen.