Volume 35, 2008
Philosophy of Communication and Information
Yukiko Okamoto
Pages 37-42
Fundamental Problem of Digital Interaction
The promised open space of cyber-interaction has its dark side hidden behind its brilliant rhetoric. The danger emerges within the very center of developing this technology (cyber-evolution). That is a more fundamental danger than this dark side seems to have. The possible replacement of our primary reality with virtual reality might erode the significance of our existential reality. This means also that the virtual reality might lose its own ground to be constructed. In order to clarify this fundamental problem at issue I show some results from a questionnaire done on younger generation. The results seem to suggest possible way of facing this problem.