To Telstra's Brave New World

Telstra's latest ad, in which the camera follows a large family through their large house, showing us that each of them has a computer with internet access and none of them have to share, is to my mind a hideous vision of our probable future as affluent, dis-connected, self-absorbed egotists inhabiting a virtual reality that excludes other humans, perhaps especially those closest. What happened to sitting around the table? What happened to conversation?