This video I found on YouTube, titled 'The Future of Communication', presents an analysis of how the major and relatively new communication technology, the computer, has and will continue to take over all our other media in our society. The video is set in the future, (2054 to be exact) and in gives us a theoretical regression, of how the computer took over the world. it shows how the computer took over all other media and we slowly began to live like robots, seemingly disconnected from one another. According to the video, in the future the online game 'Second Life', will replace life as we know it. Google, will become one of the biggest companies of the world and it will buy Microsoft. The person, who is said to be voicing the video, is Phillip K. Dick (This is most likely not true, as it seems whoever is speaking does not have an American accent). It is important to note that, thinker and author Phillip K. Dick, wrote quite a bit about the impacts of New Technologies, such as computers on the health of society.
Despite how far fetched this video may seem, it does present some very valid sociological points. Firstly, has the Internet really brought us closer together as a society, or are we becoming more and more shut out from each other? Do we find the 'Net Illusion', of something like 'blogging' to be a more comfortable way to voice our opinions, because we are becoming detached from the physical realities of conversation?
It is of course true that the Internet does have its benefits. We are able to connect to people kilometers away in an instant. Information is seemingly a mouse click away. The world has no doubt become a smaller place. But, also a less intimate one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu0ztxdsFis
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