User:Farrah Shakeel/annotated-bibliography/antisocial-applications

http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/projects/2008/antisocial/notes.php

I am in a constant struggle to sort out the virtual and substantial worlds. My romanticism lies in the ages, the hours and the moments passing by - the past. I am not (anti)anti-social or (anti)networking, but my only concern is the lack 'considerable thought' behind new formulations that it has taken away. The new speed with which we have to keep up with, has taken away our luxury to ponder over issues before making it public. This essay is only giving vocabulary to my thoughts of how a substantial being has been converted to a mere ID to draw data out of, to be used in the substantial world, which is becoming more and more virtual by the minute.

A few years ago perhaps it was extremely difficult to think of going to the moon, but today we live in a highly optimistic and utopian age, where the edge of our thought is not the end of possibilities. I don't know how far technology will reach out, perhaps it will all explode into unveiling the fact that we really are virtual beings in the hands of God, on His Xbox; we only have to figure out how the sense of smell and touch are working - the system isn't fully cracked yet.

The open-system format of these ways of networking are very exciting, but the virus - social or software - will continue to exist.