{"id":15684,"date":"2010-10-07T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-07T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T16:47:00","slug":"new-technology-confusing-real-life-with-virtual-reality-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/15684-new-technology-confusing-real-life-with-virtual-reality-pope.html","title":{"rendered":"New technology confusing real life with virtual reality:  Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyP\">&#8220;New technologies and the progress they bring can make  it impossible to distinguish truth from illusion and can lead to  confusion between reality and virtual reality,&#8221; the pope said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">&#8220;The image can also become independent from reality, it  can give birth to a virtual word, with various consequences &#8212; above  all the risk of indifference towards real life,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">He said the use of new technologies should set off &#8220;an alarm bell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">Benedict&#8217;s comments came in a speech to participants at  a world congress of Catholic media, organised by the Pontifical Council  for Social Communications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/273952-Technology-confusing-real-life-with-virtual-reality-says-Pope\"><strong>Technology and reality<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI said on Thursday that the media&#039;s increasing reliance on images, fueled by the endless development of new technologies, risked confusing real life with virtual reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}