Virtual Philosophy

Although we were talking virtual philosophy all the references to The Matrix were lost on me as I am probably the only person not to have seen any of the series (although I met Keanu Reeves in Sydney when he was filming the third one) and was more interested in the philosophical views of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and their theory that in front of every moment in time (the actual) is a virtual which is like a cluster of possibilities and choices. Something else I found interesting was a quote by Benedikt "TV is images of a life not really lived anywhere but arranged for the viewing". I'm not positive of his intended message but to me it really states well the fact that people can get too immersed in media rather than just using it as a tool. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it but I have heard people talking of characters in soap operas as though they were close personal friends rather than a two dimensional representation of a writers imagination manufactured purely for entertainment.