Exploration of: Digital and Real

Is the digital world we're in actually more or less a reflection of what we typically differentiate as "real"? Is what's "real" and what's "digital" interlinked beyond culture, social ties and history (each major aspects of the observable world)? Was a mixing/merging of the "digital" and the real inevitable as a process in our lives? Or, is it only a disruption of what is often seen as natural and it wasn't meant to happen? Alternately, was it meant to be that the digital would be a disruption?

Some questions for conversation.