Check Facebook, 5 minutes later, check Instagram, ten
minutes later, check Facebook, ‘did anyone comment on my brilliant status I
wrote? Nope’.
5 minutes later, see how my tiny tower is going. ‘woohoo a message’.
Okay lets go back to Facebook.
5 minutes later, see how my tiny tower is going. ‘woohoo a message’.
Okay lets go back to Facebook.
Aaaaaand that would pretty much sum up a lecture at uni. Oh
and write some notes, of course, actually what am I talking about, that would
actually sum up my DAY not a lecture.
Before I start this blog, I would like to turn your attention to this video of the very first iPhone launch in 2007
(there are longer, more in-depth videos, if you wish to view
that, but this is basically a summary)
My favourite part is when the people cheer when he scrolls
up and down the phone. So brilliant!
Oh, Steve, Steve, Steve. Where would we be without your
creative iPhone genius really? I actually wonder what phones would look like
today, considering that every phone on the market is now a touch phone and
basically identical to an iPhone.
(Martin Cooper, inventor of the mobile)
But, I do wonder if Martin Cooper (the cutie behind
the mobile phone, look how cute he looks with his super big phone! Awww) ever
predicted the enormity that mobile phones would have in our daily lives in the
future when he designed the mobile. When you think about the first mobile phone
ever invented and its actual only use WAS TO CALL PEOPLE and you think about an
iPhone which has incorporated Facebook, (all kinds of social networking),
games, texting, emails, the weather, stocks, camera, maps ALL on the one phone
(oh and calling) It’s actually quite amazing. The iPhone clearly revolutionised the smartphone and mobile phone industry, but how many times a day do we actually turn OFF our phones. And that doesn’t mean Silent, people! I know you all put it on silent when people ask you to turn it off in the cinema, because I do it too!
I know that I actually leave mine on all day everyday, even at night, even at low battery we all need to race to the charger to charge it.
And for what? What are we actually waiting for that is SO important?
A text from our friends telling us that they just washed
their cat?
A simple Facebook comment?
Why have we
become so reliant on our phones?
I’m actually ridiculous with mine, if my phone isn’t with me
somewhere it becomes a bit of an issue.
Maybe I need to rethink this, and spend some time without
it. Even as I type this now it’s right next to me. Why!!!?!?
Okay, so, Donna Haraway in 1985 came up with the “A CYBORG MANIFESTO SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIALIST-FEMINISM IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY” with the idea that there are no separations between bodies and objects. ‘Our life force flows through us and out into the objects we make.”
Okay, so, Donna Haraway in 1985 came up with the “A CYBORG MANIFESTO SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIALIST-FEMINISM IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY” with the idea that there are no separations between bodies and objects. ‘Our life force flows through us and out into the objects we make.”
So according to this theory, I am, and basically everyone
else who doesn’t use their phones constantly, IS a cyborg. Which in my opinion
makes a lot of sense. Our phones have truly become an attachment of us, more of
an extra hand or something.
Okay! I’m going to turn my phone off for 20, no, 30, NO 45
minutes! and see how I go.
Yeah take that Cyborg theory!
Yeah take that Cyborg theory!
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