As we discussed the digital today and I brought up the point about feeling as though internet/social media use began to appear as a disguise for reality since it was the only form of social interaction during the pandemic, I began to think whether or not that sentiment could actually be deemed truthful in years to come. With all of the exponentially increased use of technology throughout the past few decades, I think that the digital has seeped further and further into our realities. Dystopian movies such as Wally or futuristic episodes in shows like Black Mirror make me ponder whether the digital can actually be an addition or even a replacement of our reality (though the latter is quite unfathomable). Additionally, when I think about how most jobs going remote during the pandemic has made companies realize that they are better off keeping their employees working online (even after the pandemic), I begin to think that the digital may dominate our lives in the future in more ways than we thought possible. Though things will likely go back to “normal” (whatever that term means anymore) in a few months/years as the pandemic dies out and people begin to interact more in person, who is to say that there won’t be other lingering digital effects in addition to an increase in online jobs? So at what point does “reality” apply to the “digital”? Are these two terms always mutually exclusive? I know that there is digital that exists within our realities, but can reality ever exist in the digital? Does it already? Will it ever? All of this makes me really think, then how can/should we even define the term reality? I think that these are all questions that are definitely worth thinking about.