Up from the depths of the ethernet arises a virtual reality Rooster Cogburn fully dressed in his True Grit garb complete with eye patch. Fill your disk you son of a chip. I am not sure what spiritual metaphor Carl Jung would have found in this, but to me it is pretty clear pardner. The illusion of everyday reality is merging with the illusion of cyber reality for many in this society. From a Buddhist standpoint, reality is not so different from the relationship of software to hardware.
Mind creates body creates mind creates body.
The software has to match the hardware which, without software, is a no thing. Now the question of whether immersion in cyber reality is healthy and does not turn into technophillia is determined solely by how that aspect of your software resides with the aspect of your software that sees and creates a you. If you do not, then immersion into cyberreality is only going to dig you a bigger and deeper hole in the aforementioned Third Buddhist Silicon Hell. On the other hand, if technology is but another instrument in your bodhisattva hands, then you have bought the Upaya Pentium. The problem is that the vast majority of those techheads I encounter have a serious case of reality avoidance.