Reality vs. Technology:
I considered the following paragraphs from the lecture notes and decided to answer the questions that were posed and give my opinion on the morphing of reality and technology.
"The machines in Matrix create atotally illusory reality for people, constructing their identities to suit the purposes of the machine.Has it already happened? To whatextent are our identities constructed by our consumption of corporatemedia product? Where do our identities come from?"
In response to the questions I believe that we constuct machines ie; computers, cars etc, to be moulded to the way with live so that they can in essense become an extention of ourselves. People who use computers every day are said to describe the action of using a computer as almost natural. I know people who are on computers for 8 hours a day for work and claim they are so comfortable navigating this particular machine that it does feel as though it is an extention of themselves such like an arm of a leg that they can easily control.
We have also modeled computers off a human brain. Computers are merely superhuman operating systems that have similar elements that human brains have, only electrical not chemical.
"Consider the destructionof the automobile and our willingness to co-operate with it."
Likewise, some people are so comfortable with driving a car that is in fact a second nature. When you have been drving for years it becomes part of your subconscience and you rarely have to concentrate hard to operate a vehicle. This machine too does become part of you in that it is an expansion of your body, still operated by your brain, to transport humans further and faster than their bodies are able to.
"Has film and TV production techniques changed the way we see the world?"
I believe that peoples perception of reality is greatly affected by movies and television. Peoples perception of emotions like love are serverly warped from movies that portray an idealistic love that you expect to experience in your life. I also believe that the divorce rates are higher since cinema has taken off in the last decades because people are fed an very unrealistic view of love and therefore have high expectations that are never met.
