Reality will cease to exist.
Ancient people imitated nature and created many things.
Since the Industrial Age, humans have mass-produced imitations of nature.
Now, humans are creating new entities from code.
Gene editing technology can make humans immortal, and computer technology can create information entities independent of nature.
These entities no longer inherit from real-world prototypes; they are simulations.
Media is the information, and so media is the carrier of simulation.
Today's humans are surrounded by media. Ergo they live in simulation...
Webpages, social media, advertisements, television programmes, live streams, AI-generated text, images, and videos
—these interconnect to collectively create an atmosphere, a symbol of the ‘ideal life.’
They cause people to forget reality and immerse themselves in the simulation. They can not came back to the "reality".
Such a world is the hyperreal.
Reality as real because illusion serves as its opposite; but hyperreal has no opposite, it swallows everything.
In the world of hyperreal, the boundary between reality and illusion shall no longer exists....
In the future, AGI will emerge, it smarter than all AI, possessing more knowledge, and it's more terrifying.
I think the old world is gone forever; we must prepare to live in hyperreal world.