Creative Thinking: Two puzzling ideas

Here is the first one:
When radio first and then television broadcasts were implemented, only one “channel” existed. You had to listen to or watch solely what was presented to you. You had no possibility of choice. With the passing of time, scientists and technicians worked towards finding always newer means to broaden such already great achievements. They totally succeeded and now we have a huge amount of channels to choose from. Something similar happened with telephone technology. From the simplest landline that could be used only through the connection established by an operator, we were then able to communicate automatically. With the advent of cell phones, Skype etc. a greater band of possibilities became a reality.
All this is stuff we are very familiar with and accustomed to. When you use the remote control, for example, you do it without giving it a second thought. Press the button, change the channel, see and hear something else. Now let us compare this to our way of thinking, of behaving. Do you believe that your mind is as flexible as the range of TV channels? It is not so. Your mind — everybody’s mind — seems to have been programmed to work only on one frequency band, to receive only one “beam” of information from wherever information comes. It is possible (even probable) that infinite paths delivering information exist. But our brain is wired to only perceive one, so far. We have a single cable that connects us to the infinite field that is “out there,” the one which, every now and then, the special mind of a genius succeeds in tapping into.
So a new idea is born, a revolutionary theory is presented, a daring hypothesis is brought forwards. (And usually — at first — they are categorically refused or made fun of, because they don't conform! Only later are they taken into consideration and eventually proven to be right.) Anyway, do you accept the possibility that you, too, have the capability of tuning in, of adjusting your brain to receiving a different kind of frequency? A frequency that can help you improve yourself, overcome your limits and live a happier life? Are you ready to say, “One Mind, Many Channels?”

Here is the second idea.
A physicist I like a lot is professor Michiu Kaku. In a recent lecture he speaks about “wearing the Internet”, as he jokingly (but not so much) puts it. He explains that in the near future we’ll wear “Internet contact lenses” and so, with a simple blink, we’ll be able to create a completely virtual reality around us. Eventually even the sense of touch will be perfectly simulated for us to feel what we are imagining to touch. Incredibly interesting, mind-blowing ...Wow!
As usual, the more rational part of my mind immediately makes me to wonder: WHY? Why do we need to have a virtual reality? Why do scientists want to create it? “Pro bono public” (For the public good), as the ancient Romans would have said? I don’t think so! Spending tons of money for research, experiments and tests? And, once we can blink and believe that we are hiking on the Himalayas, then what? Okay, you may say that you will have a wonderful experience, otherwise impossible. I accept that. But then, what will you do with your real life? Do you think that once you can choose to live in a perfect, fictitious world, you will be ready to “willingly” go back and “stay” in your daily routine ... work, house, worries about money, fights in the family etc.?
It seems that several virtual worlds already exist in the net, with millions of subscribers, who can choose and create an “ideal” life, totally different from their own. A scary image indeed, where human beings will be less and less who they are and, instead of trying to improve themselves, they will just wear a cap or lenses and live a fake life in a fake world. My favorite author, Anthony de Mello, spoke of “a paper life in a paper world” more than thirty years ago. Prophecy? Now it is not paper but the concept still stands.

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