The reading talks about the human relationship to the
computer. It explores how computers are beyond tools and also serve as
interactions that are causing our society to perceive communications in a
different level. Sherry Turkle, the
writer, is a professor of social studies and technology who has engaged herself
in different virtual activities to understand further the cybernetic identities
that humans explore. “A rapidly
expanding system of networks, collectively known as the
Internet, links millions of people in new spaces that are
changing the way
we think, the nature of our sexuality, me form of our
communities, our
very identities.” This quote emphasizes the importance of
this resent technology we encounter ourselves engage with every day.
For us, as a transitional generation, we are more aware of
the involvement we now have with a cybernetic reality, but yet we had let it
take part of our lives to such an extent that some wouldn’t imagine their lives
without a computer, it has become part of them. That is what amazes me, that
even when we live our childhood without the computer and we know how much fun
is to play in the mud and feel the physical reality, we decide not to give
importance or even be aware that the change is so radical and impactful, we
accept it fully and care not about the physical reality anymore, we even pretend
we don’t need it. We think it can all happen in the virtual world. For a kid
that was born surrounded by computers it would be harder to accept the need of physicality
in human nature, or to even explore it. We need physical interactions, and in
my point of view humanity will fall into catharsis when we realize that the
virtual world will never fulfill our human needs.
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