projection
stop chasing after the future
It also makes it more difficult 
Nedzen
that much of our world (built by products and services) are projection supporting vehicles

Even social events are based on allowing the parties to project in some way.

I believe 
projection
 itself is not what is bad... it's almost inevitable. a human mind projects. What is bad is when that projection is not grounded to any reality... like you said 'losing touch with reality'
Abraham Kim