“Robert, when you see someone glued to a phone, you see a person ignoring this world—rather than a person engrossed in another world…a world that, like this one, is made up of communities, friends, beauty, horror, love, conflict, right and wrong. It’s all there. The online world is not so different from our world…except for one stark difference.” Katherine smiled. “It’s nonlocal.” The comment caught him off guard. “The online world,” Katherine said, “is untethered from your location. You inhabit it as a bodiless mind…free from all physical restraints. You move effortlessly anywhere, see what
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Another reality
