It’s a little scary to realize that “alternative reality” can be embodied in your computer. Superman quelled the Mole Men from underground in the movie, but can we resist our own fascination when technology delivers past, or present, delights so reliably on desktop, or even laptop, screens? We’d best be alert to how alternative reality has been creeping up on us, and leave time for the real world to keep moving us ahead. \u2013 Doug Bedell \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently, I took our grandson to a special Saturday morning showing of an early John Wayne \u00a0western movie featuring Gabby Hayes. The film, as it happened, was 68 years old and the sound had deteriorated, making a complicated plot difficult to follow. (But my grandson loved Gabby Hayes, who played a stage coach driver.) Duncan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/tt00440912-150x150.jpg\" "\\"tt0044091\\"")
<\/a>That, it seems to me, says a good deal about the Internet and the stand-in world it’s been creating for us. You can be seduced into spending increasing amounts of time on the web, and not only on social media. It’s all out there \u2013 movies, lectures, concerts and e-mail besides. Two years ago, Google-owned YouTube passed two billion video views per day<\/a>. And there are now more than 24 hours of video uploaded every minute<\/em> to the site.<\/p>\n