M.S.: Yes.
Rob: Wow. So let me take another digression here, I've done a lot of interviews over the last couple of years looking at psychopaths, sociopaths, narcissist and the other end of that, what I've learned by interviewing experts, interviewing psychopaths is that a few of the things they have in common is lack of empathy and lack of caring. Where do the things that you're describing fit into that picture?
M.S.: It's going to exacerbate it, if not create it. And again just look at the whole Facebook and selfies, the whole narcissistic twisted. What's going on in cyber bullying, again, if you look at what goes on in cybersex versus interpersonal sexual activity, again it's all narcissistic process. It's all about you. Exacerbates one of the lines I have in my book is, for many individuals people on the Internet aren't people, they're Internet people, they're Internet relationships and the rules are different and the way we act is different and again look at bullying, look at trolling, look at cybersex people, many people partake in behaviors that they never would in real life, these are the older people. The younger people are instigating relationships this way and I think it's branching out into real life in terms of the way we treat people. Now I'm not sure about the connections, we have to be careful of chicken and egg here, but again if you look at the phenomenon of a friend with benefits, where did that come out of in terms of communication on phones sitting next to somebody hey, you want to hook up instead of looking somebody in the eyes. There's a pupil dilation that happens, when you sit next to somebody, your arm might touch, you have a physiological reaction. None of that is going on in terms of building intimacy.
Rob: I have a concern that this whole iTech process that you're describing in such detail is leading to more and more people either being psychopathic and narcissistic or being ok with it and manifesting more of the traits and the behaviors.
M.S.: Yep absolutely I'm greatly concerned if you even go further in terms of some of the developments in terms of virtual reality. We were talking about sex, there's a whole classification of technology called sexnology now.
Rob: Sex, can you spell that?
M.S.: Sexnology. So technology, sexnology.
Rob: S-E-X-N-O-L-O-G-Y?
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