21st century has become a technology and
information age. Currently we are living in the world surrounded by computers
and artificial intelligence. But what impact does it have on people? What kind
of world are we living in today?
Newest technologies were meant to create a utopian world, to
facilitate our daily life, however people are becoming more and more addicted
to their smartphones, laptops and tablets. “The same technology that will
hardwire a pilot into the computer that flies the jet and enables the missiles
will allow our friend, hit by a speeding truck, to walk again. There is no
choice between utopia and dystopia.”1 Nowadays most of us cannot
imagine our day without technology and it is destroying us and making people
into cyborgs. We cannot put our smartphones away, it looks like they are
connected with our hands and are part of our body.
In today’s digital age people are, without realising,
letting everyone know where they are and what they are doing. Millions of
people around the world are using smartphones every day. A lot of programs that
they are using collect their location history. Everything is saved on the
internet - every move that they are taking, every journey they are making. People
cannot hide anymore – they are always being tracked. Nowadays everyone like in John
Baldessari collages is just a small red dot on a map that marks their location
information.
Lack of moderation made our world a place filled with
millions of cyborgs walking on the street every day. GPS that is installed in
every new electronic item not only helps to find places, but also helps for
other’s to find us. Everything has two sides, so as new technology.
1 Chris Hables Gray. (2001). Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age
