Sex and the Mechanical Bride, How ideal?

The readings for this week presented me with a lot of facts and information. Basically I was at awe at reading how much sex and technology were intertwined with technology in our day to day lives. Advertising is a huge way that the sex and technology ties filtered into my everyday site without learning it. It's hard to admit that my life is bombarded by propaganda after propaganda, wether I'm watching television and watching commercials, or I'm waiting for the bus reading ads plastered on the sides of buses. When reading though I couldn't help but think about how we have gone so far as to include sex into technology, aside from media production to simulate sex in programs such as SIMS game. Where the SIMS can go off and create an offspring or not in bed, and sparks fly quite literally between the two SIMS. Or even in Grand Theft Auto where you can hire a hooker and commence to have sex with her in the car. This kind of close connection that exists with sex and technology is one that I didn't necessarily see before this article, but it is one that concerns me.

I am all for technological advances but how far is too far? Thinking back on my childhood and how much technology has drastically changed the way society lives and functions, I am afraid we are living too much in the digital world and not enough in our real lives. People spend hours on facebook, and AIM talking to friends, things that use to be done in person or at least over the phone where one can hear a more humanizing voice at the end of the telephone. If we can further technology enough to develop experiences similar to sex, will people just stop touching? Will everything be done online now, from dating to kissing to "going all the way"? Now although my concerns may seem a bit drastic it is one of concern, aside from using technology to mobilize people socially around the world, people are also becoming stagnant in their homes. Technology in one way has facilitated our day to day lives, but is perhaps keeping us from living "normal" ones. Lives where we go out and play and socialize, and interact with one another. Where we explore our worlds surrounding instead of exploring a virtual playground. Will perhaps technologies draw be so strong that we will all live in the virtual and the real world will seem unappealing and perhaps even boring to our virtual one at our disposals?