Cyborg Envy
Title: Cyborg Envy
Date: Wednesday, December 7th, 2005.
Time: 10:51am
Doesn’t everyone experience cyborg envy? Well maybe I should define what cyborg envy is first. To my understanding cyborg envy is a sense of longing for an embodied conceptual space like cyberspace (The electronic medium of computer networks, in which online communication takes place). When we look at a television show, for example fear factor, they tell us professionals supervise everything, and that by no means at all should we ever try those things at home. Well then why can’t we hop through the screen and try it. We want to feel what we see on television and movies in reality, but there are many T.V tricks that have actors doing things that in reality could never be done. I would count cyborg envy to also be the times when my personal computer would work extremely slow or freeze up. Computer Scientists and engineers have tried to create Virtual Realities that would allow us to experience things that we would never be able to experience without death follow it. These experience like flying without wings, and living the Alice and Wonderland dream may seem childish at first, but why shouldn’t we be able to live, for at least a short while, in a virtual reality, must it only be in our dreams? Yes our dreams, I would have to consider dreams a virtual reality, a virtually reality that may be the pressing reason for us to want to have the virtual reality experience. Think about it, you can experience anything your mind creates, but the sad part is that your sleeping at the time of the experience, and by the time you wake up, you may completely forget your dream. The ultimate VR (Virtual Reality) is to be able to touch, smell, see, taste and basically experience life in something that is not reality. In the article, The machines are restless by Donna Haraway, she talks about also experiencing emotional realities in a virtual world. Feelings such as death without dying, and have sexual intimacy without intercourse, but can technology encapsulate these feelings a machine. If I was to experience VR, I would not want it to effect me in any way, I wouldn’t want it to play with my emotions to the point that I remember them. But to experience something is to remember it, including the emotions and psychological feelings. My point is, I think it would be fun to experience virtual realities, but some things are just not meant to be ventured without consequences both good or bad. Therefore, we should be happy with our human realities and go to Paramount Canada’s Wonderland every once in a while.
Date: Wednesday, December 7th, 2005.
Time: 10:51am
Doesn’t everyone experience cyborg envy? Well maybe I should define what cyborg envy is first. To my understanding cyborg envy is a sense of longing for an embodied conceptual space like cyberspace (The electronic medium of computer networks, in which online communication takes place). When we look at a television show, for example fear factor, they tell us professionals supervise everything, and that by no means at all should we ever try those things at home. Well then why can’t we hop through the screen and try it. We want to feel what we see on television and movies in reality, but there are many T.V tricks that have actors doing things that in reality could never be done. I would count cyborg envy to also be the times when my personal computer would work extremely slow or freeze up. Computer Scientists and engineers have tried to create Virtual Realities that would allow us to experience things that we would never be able to experience without death follow it. These experience like flying without wings, and living the Alice and Wonderland dream may seem childish at first, but why shouldn’t we be able to live, for at least a short while, in a virtual reality, must it only be in our dreams? Yes our dreams, I would have to consider dreams a virtual reality, a virtually reality that may be the pressing reason for us to want to have the virtual reality experience. Think about it, you can experience anything your mind creates, but the sad part is that your sleeping at the time of the experience, and by the time you wake up, you may completely forget your dream. The ultimate VR (Virtual Reality) is to be able to touch, smell, see, taste and basically experience life in something that is not reality. In the article, The machines are restless by Donna Haraway, she talks about also experiencing emotional realities in a virtual world. Feelings such as death without dying, and have sexual intimacy without intercourse, but can technology encapsulate these feelings a machine. If I was to experience VR, I would not want it to effect me in any way, I wouldn’t want it to play with my emotions to the point that I remember them. But to experience something is to remember it, including the emotions and psychological feelings. My point is, I think it would be fun to experience virtual realities, but some things are just not meant to be ventured without consequences both good or bad. Therefore, we should be happy with our human realities and go to Paramount Canada’s Wonderland every once in a while.
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