Until recently only nerds and hackers have been living inside the new media. But the general public will populate VR very soon, and they will make it their world. Even more so than in TV-land since VR offers more tools to build your own house than TV does. An evolutionary step that involves biologic alteration is irreversible. And it better be good, better than drugs or religion.
Digital technology is the new religion.
Just this once let us keep our gods in our own hands. Any relationship between technology and spirtuality is constructed by Hippies from the past who now wish to coverup the guilt of their present relationship to Capitalism. A certain order of synaptic connections, established both by how we use a medium like a computer or an access on-line, and by what we are invited to do with these activities, establishes itself as a norm for our behaviour and our judgement. Connectivity becomes a way of life. We develop network minds.