SLA

I've been reading Michael Heim's The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality, looking for a sense of where our imaginations are going as our thought processes and worldviews are influenced by computers. It worries me that people who grow up on computers may lack a classical framework for understanding themselves within the world. Is the web a kind of slippery playground for the mind? Does all the wiki linking and on-the-spot relating with "facts" and people leave us in a Matrix-like fog, where symbols eternally flow through the mind's eye unnoticed?

Heim starts with how we write, a subject that every teacher is concerned about: your prose, Heim claims, reads differently, you no longer think before you write, you think on-screen. Word processing tempts us to think that "faster means better" and ease equals "instant quality".

I wonder if we need ways to step back from the computer screen and listen to our own reality. Meditation? The Glass Bead Game?