Finding references on internet, discussing technologies development with technology(computer) and submitting assignment on a blog is a brand new way to experience the digital age. We are supposed to use this blog to build a small community that our members can share their ideas and news of progresses of technology and new issues. So that we can discuss all about these but I do not see we have done much. That leads me to think about what exactly technology has bring us as human. We said we are all cyborg because we make use of technology to breakthrough the binary boundaryies, that we, the identity of human blurr with the identity with meachines. However I believe how we make use of these technology define our identity. Take the blog as an example, if we do not make a good use of it, if we do not sense it help with our communications and connections with others, we simply use less.
Blogger is only a server that let users to post their ideas or thoughts or their lives to let other people know, but how we use it could make a lot of difference. For example, I found some blogs(which also use Blogger), lead people into discussion about feminism, film critics and taking pictures. These blogs are motivate by people who have great interest in it and they do put a lots of heart contributing to the blog. What I want to say is other creatures use techolongies but they do not like us, we use and improve them again and again until we are happy with it.
If using the defination from Hararway, we are all cyborgs, then I am a cyborg. My life are fill with technology that helps me to communicate, make my life easier and extend my life and my worldview. Being a cyborg is a fun thing to do, our world is just expand but our mind gets narrowed. Because we start to regard thing in one dimension, but before that we experience the world and our relationships in different angles. And thinking in just one dimension will narrow our improvement of our living. Therefore on the one hand I am glad I get to know technology and get to know to use it in a wise way, but on the other hand, I am losing the other senses I had before. For example, before I got I smart phone, I was using mobile phone that could not go on the internet, and so I was so found on novels. When I got the smart phone, I started to go on the interent and almost forgot novels I was reading, the imagination base on reading book has almost gone, I could not get back to the stage where I used to enjoy the world of imagination because I imagining text world in a very slow speed.
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