It's impressive how integrated our digital lives have become to what we do on the real world. So much so, that we don't think twice about how much of what we do in one affects the other one. In many respects they are not parallel to each other, but have become virtually indistinguishable from each other.
In itself, it's not something good or bad. All comes down to how we manage them, since the results of the use give them will dictate the outcome of their integration. Most importantly, there is still a lot of people that aren't conscious about what they do on the Internet will have an impact on their lives on the outside world. It has become almost impossible to separate what we do online from what we do on the real world.
Many of our interactions online are an extension of what we do in the real world, and the same goes the other way around. Not to mention that it's possible to almost completely conduct almost all of lives online in some cases, and almost impossible not to have part of our daily interactions online.
We are now at a moment in history on which, that those without access to the Internet are at disadvantage to those have access to it. Not only most of human knowledge is on the Internet, but as time goes on the number of things that can only be done online keeps increasing.
The real and digital worlds have started to blur, becoming and extension of each other. This makes it difficult to even imagine how future generations will experience them, all we can do is to lay the foundations for a more fair access for as many people as possible. Not to mention to create the systems that allow for people to be able to learn the tools needed to actually use to the fullest what they need to be happy and be the best version of themselves.
Almost everything we know will change dramatically, and we need to give the future generations what they need to make the best out of it.
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