It won't. This is digital heroin of the purest kind. The reason we've never heard from any alien species is that they invented this technology and then the entire population disappeared into their goonspheres and never emerged.

Quite how they stopped a line forming three decks long outside every holodeck on the Enterprise is a mystery to me.

Or maybe it will just make people realize the value of fake life experiences and human relationships.

Dunno, I want to agree, but at the same time it's spoken like someone to whom these experiences and human relationship come easily. There are many people out there who, for some reason (anxiety, etc.), cannot easily access this part of the human condition, unfortunately.

Perhaps better to roam a virtual reality than be starved in the real world.

It is only detaching people from reality more. The internet used to be a window into the outside world and now AI is making it counterfeit manipulated fantasy.

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