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RE: Are Digital Experiences Robbing Reality?
As you opened, a digital experience is a digital experience, it is not a substitute for the real thing. It may however encourage people to make the effort to experience the real thing. It has its place, but will always be less.
Thanks, @leoplaw. Right. The two types of experiences are not substitutes in any way for one another. And how and where they impact each other is something we need to more deeply and accurately understand. Not only how the digital version may increase visitation, but how it can blunt surprise and how it shapes expectation and perception. In 1987, many visitors to Fingerspan would have only heard about it previous to hiking to it. Today, they most likely arrive with the illusion that they've already been there.
That is one of the greatest illusions today, because it has been seen and heard on a screen, people believe they claim to have experienced and therefore influence it. Armchair adventurers and activists.