We Cannot Think Any Longer Man Without A Machine?
Introduction
First Bruce Mazlish (1967, p.14) claimed “we cannot think any longer man without a machine” in 1967, then Sherry Turkle discussed the issue of people growing up with computers and loving them and identify themselves as machines in 1984. Today, there is a new direction and discussion about the relationship between human and machines. As Mazlish and Turkle emphasized the future of interaction between machines and human, today, the discussion has various aspects and one of them is that how people feel about the technology and its machines. Only same thing about the discussion is that trying to predict the future. It is discussed that digital future is monolithic; “everything will be digital, everyone will be wired, all media will …show more content…
It is not clear yet the term such as “Internet addcition” is useful because overrated Internet usage is still called as a habit. However, it is important to mention that habit is a routine which is the level before addiction. For this reason, technophilia should not be considered as the addiction for technology for any reason, actually and easily it means just loving the technology according to any reason; such as; a machine can make us happy, make our lives easier, make represent us in a good position in public. Therefore we have technology because we think it makes us better, and it is the idea of what technophilia means in real. Further, technophilia does not have to be on purpose, and it is not conscious feeling always; for instance, many people have refrigerator in their homes, and for sure they never think they love their refrigerators but, in deep, we have already been depended to this device, and when we do not have the machine in the kitchen if we feel that we need it again, it is technophilic feeling. The feeling is like when it is said “I miss my computer” when we are in holiday, or if there is no network connection around when we need it, we feel obligation and pressure to find a place to connect to the Internet, or just decorating our cars, mobile phone and computers to make them look like as we want, as we
First Bruce Mazlish (1967, p.14) claimed “we cannot think any longer man without a machine” in 1967, then Sherry Turkle discussed the issue of people growing up with computers and loving them and identify themselves as machines in 1984. Today, there is a new direction and discussion about the relationship between human and machines. As Mazlish and Turkle emphasized the future of interaction between machines and human, today, the discussion has various aspects and one of them is that how people feel about the technology and its machines. Only same thing about the discussion is that trying to predict the future. It is discussed that digital future is monolithic; “everything will be digital, everyone will be wired, all media will …show more content…
It is not clear yet the term such as “Internet addcition” is useful because overrated Internet usage is still called as a habit. However, it is important to mention that habit is a routine which is the level before addiction. For this reason, technophilia should not be considered as the addiction for technology for any reason, actually and easily it means just loving the technology according to any reason; such as; a machine can make us happy, make our lives easier, make represent us in a good position in public. Therefore we have technology because we think it makes us better, and it is the idea of what technophilia means in real. Further, technophilia does not have to be on purpose, and it is not conscious feeling always; for instance, many people have refrigerator in their homes, and for sure they never think they love their refrigerators but, in deep, we have already been depended to this device, and when we do not have the machine in the kitchen if we feel that we need it again, it is technophilic feeling. The feeling is like when it is said “I miss my computer” when we are in holiday, or if there is no network connection around when we need it, we feel obligation and pressure to find a place to connect to the Internet, or just decorating our cars, mobile phone and computers to make them look like as we want, as we