Discovering an Ideal Escape

Because the computer relies on repeated commands to function, and at times may not respond appropriately or timely to the commands, it becomes difficult to visualize the objects on the computer screen as “real.” Rather, as Bolter and Grusin note, computers are “too obviously mediated” (33). In this way, computers have been unable to hide the presence of their medium.
The desire to hide the medium is a desire to make real something that is not. People’s attempts to create three dimensional computer realms, where an individual feels part of the technology, represents human’s desire to control and create their reality. If humans can forget about the medium, and become part of the technology they use, they can very much escape reality into their created reality.

Of course, for some, this would be ideal.