Post by account_disabled on Mar 9, 2024 5:19:18 GMT -4
The more technology advances and the more it merges with the human body - and the more the digital world merges with the physical one - the less it makes sense to use an otherwise problematic dichotomy: online vs offline, sometimes expressed as the real world in opposition to the digital world. A distinction that has probably always been meaningless: why should our interactions on Whatsapp or Instagram be less real (in their obvious diversity) than those we have in the physical world? Why should an experience lived online be less important than one lived offline? As long as the digital world was confined to desktop computers that compartmentalized our online experience, this dichotomy still had a reason to exist.
But with the advent of smartphones, and even more so with Germany Phone Number the imminent arrival of augmented reality viewers ( which we have talked about at length here ), all this is becoming meaningless. Where previously there was a nuanced online vs offline, now the doors are opening to a unique and homogeneous experience , to describe which the philosopher Luciano Floridi coined the successful term onlife. “The ever-increasing pervasiveness of information and communication technologies (ICT) shakes consolidated reference structures through the following transformations: the blurring of the distinction between real and virtual; of the distinction between human, machine and nature; the inversion from the scarcity of information to the abundance of information and the passage from the primacy of entities to the primacy of interactions”, writes Floridi in his manifesto.
Our life is less and less divisible into online experiences and offline experiences and there is no supremacy, or greater authenticity, of one over the other. Everything is fused : a virtual experience can continue in the physical world, our action in the virtual world can have concrete repercussions in the offline one. And, above all, there is no reason to believe that what happens online is less "true" than what happens offline. We are not human beings who temporarily immerse ourselves in the digital world and then re-emerge, shake it all off, and resume our regular lives: the two experiences are now constantly and deeply intertwined.
But with the advent of smartphones, and even more so with Germany Phone Number the imminent arrival of augmented reality viewers ( which we have talked about at length here ), all this is becoming meaningless. Where previously there was a nuanced online vs offline, now the doors are opening to a unique and homogeneous experience , to describe which the philosopher Luciano Floridi coined the successful term onlife. “The ever-increasing pervasiveness of information and communication technologies (ICT) shakes consolidated reference structures through the following transformations: the blurring of the distinction between real and virtual; of the distinction between human, machine and nature; the inversion from the scarcity of information to the abundance of information and the passage from the primacy of entities to the primacy of interactions”, writes Floridi in his manifesto.
Our life is less and less divisible into online experiences and offline experiences and there is no supremacy, or greater authenticity, of one over the other. Everything is fused : a virtual experience can continue in the physical world, our action in the virtual world can have concrete repercussions in the offline one. And, above all, there is no reason to believe that what happens online is less "true" than what happens offline. We are not human beings who temporarily immerse ourselves in the digital world and then re-emerge, shake it all off, and resume our regular lives: the two experiences are now constantly and deeply intertwined.