RE: Is that you, or the algorithm speaking?
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The interesting thing is, I have seen this on the next level — pure speculative fiction. Like "Flashback" where the economy is in shambles, states have dissolved a bit further, people are addicted to reliving their fabulous experience from the past while under the reality simulation drug — by Dan Simmons; "The Wild" where a space pilot lands on a world which is only populated by people living in a VR bubble. Everybody plugged into a mass simulation of bliss that resembles...nature — what they have no more — by David Zindell; any cyberpunk by William Gibbson...
What is interesting about speculative fiction is...to one degree or another, it sees trends, speculates on what could become reality...and is partially correct about the future. The only thing is to discern to what extent. Or for those who prefer movies to books...to what extent will we be living "Equilibrium", "Mad Max", "The Matrix", "Hunger Games", etc. visions. Maybe 1 % of this, 30 % of that, 5 % of this, 20 % of that... With fluctuations...
The most reassuring thing is...Nature and Life themselves are far more...complex and unpredictable, and they have other options to offer. Although, it's again a percentage of what we've seen.
Without media, we see very little. Direct observation is good but way less than what we're driving on. We navigate based on the internet and On-Air media and that's that. The correct education and training of thought is all we can do. Aye, casting our own visions for anybody out there to see, too.
Even personalities and lifestyles are based on outside influences. With or without media, we are being conditioned. Religion was the same thing and still is. All social doctrines have always been.
It's just about the means of delivery.