Adilkno The Media Archive - assignment

Living in the Media

Media technology has shaped how human perceives the world. The free flow of information opens dialogue between cultures creating a new dimension of human interaction. As Adilkino states in this text "Earthly wiring and stratospheric irradiation have created an infrastructure in which anything can happen anywhere and anyone can be present at any moment." The internet of things promote exchanges of data beyond borders of geographic locations; a multicultural within a universal language. Image + text + sound travel all over, connecting people in an euphoric media production! A creation of a new concept of global village - the cyberspace - seems to be the most natural ecosystem to inhabit.

Cyberspace a term first used in 1981 at True Names, a science fiction novella by Vernor Vinge, in which the characters from True Names connect their brain directly to the internet with electrodes, and fully immerse themselves into a virtual reality. (1)

According to oxford dictionary cyberspace is the notional environment in which communication over computer networks occurs. People emerge into this new world of limitless possibilities. High speed access to information; and further reproduction; and propagation. A wide world to explore and get lost in its all complexity. It is "Babel-like confusion", in which people manage to articulate their online activities.

In actual physical spaces the distinction between work and personal spaces gets blurred due to media "delocalization" and "detemporalization" (2). "Media nomads" get advantage of maximum mobility, moving forward, whilst absolete media is left behind: "Leftover data will disappear through the hole in the ozone layer and dissolve into interstellar dark matter.".