I’m personally experiencing the exact phenomenon described in one of those Monday new media lectures – the over-reliance on new media and their systems. Left my house today WITHOUT my precious diamond. As in handphone (it’s a HTC diamond anyway.) It was my first time leaving home without it and it feels horrible. The sudden detachment from the communications world, isolated from others. It made me think about how it would be like for the people in the past.
Have man and machines integrated into one so much until we have developed such a strong reliance on them? It makes us question whether machines and new media have made us slaves to them instead of us being their masters. Back before the rampant existence of technology and new media among our society, we did not have to think about the possibilities of anything going wrong just because on was uncontactable , simply because everyone was just as uncontactable as the rest.
So has the developments of technology turned into a bane instead of its original intention of a boon? I believe we cannot fully blame the progress of technology on such a phenomenon. We have been on the road for progress and striving for the main aim of making life better from the very beginning of mankind.
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