Citation for Amber Case
Chaya Leverton on Nov 12th 2012
Case, Amber, perf. We are all cyborgs now. 2011. Web. 11 Nov 2012.
Amber Case studies the symbiotic interactions between humans and machines and considers how our values and culture are being shaped by our high-tech lives. In her Ted talk, Amber Case explains “It’s not that machines are taking over; it’s that they’re helping us to be more human, helping us to connect with each other…We’re just increasing our humanness and our ability to connect with each other regardless of geography” (7:12-7:42). Case’s theory connects to my point that technology is helping us connect because it’s generating a more collaborative and cooperative society. We have to connect with each other in order to produce the very technologies that help us connect. For example, to produce a car, we have to come together as a society and contribute to each part, and the completed car actually helps us connect even more; we can, so to speak, “bend time and space” and get to each other more quickly and easily. It’s a cycle; we come together and connect to produce technology that helps us connect. At the end of the day, technology helps us become more human because it gives us more opportunities to connect. We may be less self-reliant, but we are definitely more connected.