Reality

When you were a child, this was a recurrent scene:

It's Sunday, all your family gathers around the table to have breakfast. Your mother is pouring the coffee and your father is reading the paper. You see him scanning the pages, looking for something that grabs his attention. He reads and nods a few times, doing some gestures when he agrees or disagrees.

Now, I want you to imagine the same scene happening today. What could be different? Let me imagine it for you:

There's still this nice smell of coffee and your mom is urging you to eat your food. But this time, your father isn't reading the newspaper. He's looking at his phone.

If we could spy on him, we would notice that he is watching a video about a politician. Take a few minutes to watch it with him (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS1l3JigDhc). Don't you feel something wrong about the video? Aren't you curious why the eyes are so weird, and why his right hand doesn't moves?

Twenty years ago, that video wouldn’t have been raising any kind of doubts or comments. It would’ve been another speech by the present during the holidays. But, now, we have to ask ourselves, Is this real?

And that's one of the most important differences between the world when you were a child and now: Computers can generate whatever you read, watch, or listen to today.

For me, that changes everything.

We entered to a new age, where our sense of reality is being tricked all time. Truth, as the most sacred value in society, is starting to fall apart.

The question is: Is the truth still relevant? Is being real important anymore?

2022 is a doorway to a simulated future. It is time to redefine the concepts of perception and reality.