Earlier this week Arnab Sen, head of strategic planning at MRM (a global, top-five digital and direct agency in India), wrote a post for Mashable.com arguing that the virtual world or online world and the offline or face-to-face world are melting into one. More specifically, he writes:
Social science studies increasingly suggest that the divide between the virtual and real worlds is narrowing. Our experiences of reality may no longer constitute a duality.
So What?
The melting becomes apparent when you consider tech trends over the past generation. How has technology changed in your experience over the last twenty years? the last ten? the last five?
In your own experience, have these two worlds melted into one or are they distinct yet overlapping realms?
When (whether that has already happened, is happening now, or happens at some future date) the two worlds become one such that people no longer speak of a virtual world that is somehow separate from the rest of life, what are the implications for church?