Week 10 - Games & Avatar In The Information Age

Do you believe that you are cyborgian in nature?

Nowadays, with the era of globalisation, people are exposed to much more information than ever before. I like to call that "information flooding".  We are growing up in a world that is more different from our parent’s life than any generation before them. We are adjusting to a culture that our parents or grandparents do not understand. Technology has improved our standard of living in many ways and digital technologies, in particular have provided us with amazing opportunities.

Therefore, in consequences, people are now too relying on the technologies as it gives benefits to our life. Hence, we all are cyborg. Cyborg is part of human and part of machine. Yes, this maybe sound awkward to you, or you maybe thought that this only sci-fiction but actually in reality this is true. As stated by Case 2010), cyborg is an organism “to which exogenous components have been added for the purposes of adapting to new environments”.

However, it does not mean that we are robot cop or terminator. It means that in our everyday life that we are never missing using the computer or mobile phone or any other devices.  We are no longer control the machine, but the machine is control us. These technologies help us to travel faster, communicate differently. 

Well I admit that I am one of the cyborgian in nature. This is because my everyday life is full with this technology. There are 2 important things in my life, which is mobile phone & laptop. 

 

Seriously I cannot survive without both of it. Laptop is the tools for me to engage with other social networking such as Facebook or twitter to interact with my friends. I have spent more time with this social networking than spent time with my family. It saves times a lot rather than have to make an appointment again with my friends and think where we should meet up. Similar also with the cell phones, imagine it just lose one day only, for sure I going to be half insane without it. 

Technology is now replacing our body such as leg, hand, mouth, eye and so on. For example, if we want to purchase ticket, we are no longer to go to the counter at travel agency or airport. Now we are able to purchase it through online directly. See how this technology made our life easier.

Reference:

• Case, A. (2011). We are all cyborg. Retrieve on October 15, 2011 from 
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1KJAXM3xYA
• Robins, K. (2000). Cyberspace and the world we live in. In Bell, D. and Kennedy, B.M. (eds.), The cyber cultures 34 reader (pp.77--‐95). London: Routledge.