The Ever-Changing technology
Sunday, August 9, 2009 by chosen
With the ever changing technology that surrounds us, we cannot but help change with the technology.
Donna Haraway pointed out “we are all theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism: in short, we are cyborgs”. (1991) This statement by Haraway points out how we as a society are becoming one with technology whether we like it or not. We might find this statement as a false representation of ourselves, but we live in an information age, where cell phones and mp3s’ have become extended parts of our body. Technology is not just taken everywhere with us but, has become a daily routine, we incorporate into our schedule. While Haraway’s theory pointed technology and human becoming one, it did not point out technology becoming part of the body.
However people like Stelarc and Orlan are Avnte – Garde cyborgs, who believe in pushing the boundary of the relationship between body and technology. Orlan states “The body as a medium… are we still convinced that we must bend ourselves to the decision of nature, this lottery of gene distributed by chance?”. Both Orlan and Stelarc seem to think the body is not perfect consisting of too many weak points, that the body must be evolved with the technology around is in order to make it complete and adequate.
The idea of Orlan of the body becoming a medium has to some effect become a reality as Kingsley Dennis (2008) believes “The human body is becoming re-configured – or re-wired in to a biological antenna”. Dennis believes we have information surrounding us wherever we go, and we absorb all this information. Although we cannot stop the evolvement of technology, as it brings opportunity and capability, one cannot however ignore the fact that these technologies also have negative possibilities. For instance the Neuro technology that is being developed threatens the privacy of our thoughts and intentions. This type of technology also makes our body a medium, as it will be able to read our thought just like we read articles on the internet.
Donna Haraway pointed out “we are all theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism: in short, we are cyborgs”. (1991) This statement by Haraway points out how we as a society are becoming one with technology whether we like it or not. We might find this statement as a false representation of ourselves, but we live in an information age, where cell phones and mp3s’ have become extended parts of our body. Technology is not just taken everywhere with us but, has become a daily routine, we incorporate into our schedule. While Haraway’s theory pointed technology and human becoming one, it did not point out technology becoming part of the body.
However people like Stelarc and Orlan are Avnte – Garde cyborgs, who believe in pushing the boundary of the relationship between body and technology. Orlan states “The body as a medium… are we still convinced that we must bend ourselves to the decision of nature, this lottery of gene distributed by chance?”. Both Orlan and Stelarc seem to think the body is not perfect consisting of too many weak points, that the body must be evolved with the technology around is in order to make it complete and adequate.
The idea of Orlan of the body becoming a medium has to some effect become a reality as Kingsley Dennis (2008) believes “The human body is becoming re-configured – or re-wired in to a biological antenna”. Dennis believes we have information surrounding us wherever we go, and we absorb all this information. Although we cannot stop the evolvement of technology, as it brings opportunity and capability, one cannot however ignore the fact that these technologies also have negative possibilities. For instance the Neuro technology that is being developed threatens the privacy of our thoughts and intentions. This type of technology also makes our body a medium, as it will be able to read our thought just like we read articles on the internet.