Technological Community

“The concept of ‘human’ is unthinkable without technology but we act as it is.” 

We cannot live without technology in our everyday lives. Shaw writes in Technoculture that technology defines whom we are as people from how we interact with technology. Shaw writes about the body doesn’t put thought into media and technology it coexists along side it. I can say growing up with technology around me has definitely influenced who I am as a person and what I am interested in.  It has also let me adapt to new software easily from all the imbed codes that I have from years of technology consumption. 

Shaw writes how handwriting was replaced with typescript and word processing. Another example is how learning skills has became so much easier by just looking it up. Creating time for people to do new things and push the body forward. Shaw talks about how the community before the advancement of technology was a machine. In the industrial age people went to factory jobs like well oiled machines it reminds us that we don’t need technology. Those jobs have now been replaced by machines that where made by machines.

It doesn’t mean that the body can’t live with out machines it means that because we are so used to it we became dependent on it. Some people cant even dream not having technology in everyday life. It has advanced so much it is hard to remember a time with out it. 

In the digital age now we can see how the community is the technologic machine. Communities are now creating technology like the internet, then other communities are seeing this and improving it then sending it back out for other communities to see it. So this is a never-ending cycle that has no ending. This is why shaw talks about the techno bodies because we are the technology. 

"the concept of 'human' is unthinkable without technology" (2008 pp.81)

Humans are the technology 

D. Shaw (2008). Technoculture: The Key Concepts. Oxford: Oxford Berg Press. 81-102.