Interconnecting Webs

After reading Mitchell and listening to the interviews I have found it very interesting many theories interconnect about technology and those who use it. Mitchell describes things as metaphors. The metaphor that he uses is that technology is like a the human, without one part another part can not work. This is a very interesting way to relate to technology. When we were first talking about metaphors I never thought about the connections and creating a metaphor that was detailed and complex I only thought of comparing it to something simple and easy to relate to.

As I watched the clips of Marshall McLuhan speaking about television. He says that tv has transformed us in a "global village". In this village we are interconnected by the ability to all share the same technology. We are connected to everyone around the world just by turning on the tv. We are able to be closer and connected due to the ability to use or new technology. When creating this metaphor of television to being a global connector I have to wonder how we connected before. How have we become so dependent on the tv?

"I do not do much mental arithmetic anymore; calculators and computers take care of that. I don’t rack my brain for half-remembered facts; I look them up on the web” (34). We have taken everything for granted. Even with the metaphor of our body has a distinct problem. Without a limb we are unable to do things that other people can. We are then?Are we disconnected and are we unable to function. I will be very interested in seeing what the rest of the class has to offer on these readings.

It is interesting though how we are not thinking about the negative affect of technology. We discussed once in class whether we thought that technology was creating laziness in children. I had to sit and ask myself if I would have been different if I did not have tv as a kid. But where is the end or are just going in circles. Are we just going to create myth after myth to explain why the Internet is so valuable or will be just create a society that are like robots. On pg 117 Mosco says with any new technology there is an end. As when humans get older there is a slow down in things that we can do, is the Internet going to become something to powerful and we will not be able to control it?