I think the course provided a chance for me to think about how technologies affect our daily life. As we live in the technological era, we rely on the new technologies a lot. People always use a blog to from a virtual community and make friends with other bloggers. But, there is another way to use the blog in this course. We can experience that using a blog as a learning tool. I think it is quite interesting. It is common that we use our mobile phone to surf the Internet, writing a blog as homework is actually combined work and play together because we can do the homework when we had a gathering with friends. And the topic work and play inspired me a lot. In the past, our parents required us to separate work and play in different period of time. But, I think the boundary between these two elements does not exist anymore. People combined them in an unobvious way. It is easy for us to discover people play the game in their mobile phone, NDS or PSP when they are working.
After understanding more about cyborg, I will regard myself as a cyborg. The first reason is that I wear contact lens. Since contact lens is not something natural, it is made by technologies. I combined some artificial elements in my body. Thus, I can be defined as a cyborg. However, I think cyborg is not simply defined as the mixture of human and robot. From the last reading that written by Hayles, she argues that cyborg is seen as a construction that participates in distributed cognition dispersed throughout the body and the environment. Thus, the environment is another key factor to regard ourselves as cyblog or not. I think I rely on technologies a lot. For example, if I forgot to bring my mobile phone, it is hard for me to maintain the normal daily life. Because I cannot find my friend as I didn’t remember their phone number. I did not know the news of my friends as I cannot access Facebook. For these reason, I think I am a cyborg as the technologies became a part of my living.
By Yan Wai Ki Michelle 10380469
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