Does the Physical Being matter anymore?

I would like to start with a Haiku Quote which in my mind captures imagination/perception and being in just 3 simple lines

A tree in the wind
The wind in a tree
All in me.

In this world of virtual interactions, I have suddenly started to believe that we are evolving into a species whose physical state and body will slowly stop holding any meaning and all that will matter is the 'Mind'.

Today we value meeting people/having coffee with a bunch of friends/walking and running around parks.
Tomorrow we will meet people over a video camera/walk and run around simulated spaces of a play station and maybe experience a reality created by ourselves.

So in all of this, I wonder if the physical being matters anymore? Does it matter that I was born to be of a certain shape and size, with a specific hair colour, with blue or brown eyes? Does touch of another being matter or will I soon be content in experiencing the touch via simulation or evolve and not need it at all? Will I feel good conversing with a piece of software which is random too and that can perceive?

These questions have been lingering around for years in various forms of spirituality. Funnily its mass connotation almost seems real today with technology bringing virtual reality closer to each of us everyday.

All of this will depend on being able to accurately replicate the human mind, its desires, behavior and perceptions into a piece of program that can then create. As far as the human body is concerned, it will evolve. We got rid of the tail when we saw no use of it. I am sure, we shall soon get rid of limbs if we don't see use of it. It is an interesting thought and sometimes a scary one too. However, we got to remember - as much as we forget, evolution continues, and no one really knows! Cheers to Microsoft/Google/Apple/Sony and many others who are contributing to create a whole new world based on a new reality - a virtual one!

'I create, I experience and I destroy!'  In all this,I wonder who is 'God'?