A degenerate Sims society? It just sounds like what many people would probably do in real life, left to their own devices. With the increasing popularity of internet interaction and games like Sims, I wonder if some of the science fiction writers were accurate. Will we see a future where people become homebound blobs, confined to high-tech loungers with feeding tubes and direct brain-to-web interfaces? Will they eventually reach a point where even interacting through their 3D avatars is too much effort and they simply exist by watching the avatars and "live" through their cybernetic proxies?

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