Overall, I enjoyed this text and found it highly rational and, at the very minimum, interesting. His argument that technology effects social habits and thus, social interactions seems well supported and therefore, valid. His general theory that if it was not for this effect of technology, then there would not be such individual institutions as democracy and capitalism may seem like an enormous hypothesis to claim, but, prior to such technology individuals relied on each other more in order to survive. Technology essentially creates a simpler life, which means there is less dependence on other individuals. With less dependence on others, more dependence is placed on the individual, which in turn may unravel the threads that hold together a society. Thus, the result is individual-focused forms...
Take for example the technological invention of the Internet. Now, individuals are no longer dependent on others (the news and media) to act as the sole source of their information. Instead, now individuals have the power to find their own information and thus make their own conclusions by conducting their own independent research. Further, such sites as YouTube and Wikipedia allow individuals to create information themselves without ever having to interact with another individual.
Moreover, the arena for that very transformation could, because of the inherent nature of technological advancement, achieve something that is beyond the sum of its parts. Cyberspace in Neuromancer becomes more than an expression of human consciousness, it eventually becomes consciousness. Bibliography Adams, Paul C. "Cyberspace and Virtual Places." Geographical Review, 87 (1997): 155-171. Bell, David, an Introduction to Cybercultures, NY; Routledge, 2001. Bell, David and Barbara M. Kennedy, the Cybercultures Reader, NY:
Media Archaelogy and Videogames In today's world, the rapid development of technology has opened worlds of vast information and entertainment that are instantly accessible at the touch of a button. The relationships created in this way not only involve those we interact with online or via gaming, but also our own perception, the mental imagery we create and the apparatus we use to access these. A researcher who truly wants to
'Both periods' she says 'are caught up the exhilaration and fearfulness of living inside a gap in history, whenthe paradigms that structured the past seem facile and new paradigms uncertain'. The alignment of the Renaissance reality with the existentialist void of the 20th century allows Stoppard to bring to life what the Player King points out, that 'every exit is an entrance somewhere else' In Conclusion let us just say
The groundskeeper explained to the golfers, you are lucky to be alive, "You were sitting on a box of dynamite." The headline of small yet front page article LEOPOLD and LOEB OUGHT to READ THIS. A completely unrelated story of luck, becoms a very sobering reminder to the Sheboygan readers of the nationally infamous Chicago trial, still taking place and likely nearing the sentencing stage. On the same front
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