When you sit at a computer screen all day, somethin I have done a lot of in my little place in the woods, you get disconnected from the natural world. People that live in the city already got more of that than they need. The Internet IS another world. It will become more so as technology improves and the virtual worlds all them computer eggheads keep tellin us about become a reality. Often as not, Children nowadays spend a lot more time in the world of computers than they do in the natural world.
Many adults do too.
Big city life, television and other modern wonders have already separated many people from nature and many of them miss it. So off they go, hikin and bikin and climbin rocks. They camp and canoe and hunt and fish and everthing else they can think of just so they can have an excuse to be outside. People who spend all day on a computer monitor don t get a proper dose of the maker s world and it wears em down. They start to forget where the come from and who they are.