Yet, the brain strains against an artificial world. We need trees and animals like we need food and water. I have a dream that as place becomes irrelevant, we will spend more time outside, circumstantially communing with weather and wilderness. We evolved salivating as we charge the deer and dry mouth running from the tiger. Sitting at my desk, these programs sit dormant.
Seasonal rituals are now for shopping, with little sense of the awesome passage once marked.
I would love to bring back the cultural relevance of natural cycles, but I fear that the Joneses would rather teleport to sunshine for convenience and entertainment. There is great beauty in this. It is also exciting, as all borders of transition are. However, as a society, I think we need to go retro a little and engineer a more holistic perspective, with the full spectrum of planetary experience, wild nature, starry views, and virtual reality laid out as harmonious to our societal lives. Human culture needs to know the beauty of how the computer fits with the crow, business with the body, people with the planet.