I recall watching a Sandra Bullock film called “The Net” in the mid-nineties. It was about a software engineer, played by Bullock, who inadvertently became entangled in a web of cyber espionage and eventually had to fight for her identity (and even her life) in a flood of harrowing situations. One of the key plots in the film was that Bullock’s character was a recluse, rarely leaving her house and having virtually no life outside of cyberspace. This plot angle was a direct result of the budding age of the Internet and spurred popular discussions about how this newfangled “world wide web” was going to turn us all into hermits, cut off and desensitized to the real world around us.
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