Tuesday, October 27, 2009

My Veronica!


                                   [Image: Media Studio - University of Newcastle].

As a society of digital consumers you are in denial if you believe your lifestyle has not become more reliant on computers. The application of issuing names has evolved and is no longer applicable to just cars, boats, pets etc; They are now common in most electrical appliances, muscling the greatly accomplished automobile from the top of the food chain for being man's best toy. I have Larry (laptop), Penny (PSP) and Irene (Ipod) to name a few.

I spend all day around a computer, yet I am impervious to that fact when I am at home. The harmonisation of computers and mobile phones takes the love obsession further. We fight, laugh, cry and even spend the night together on those critical deadlines. In the near future we will see a new niche market, 'Center for the Digitally Disturbed' where addicts will go for treatment that will accommodate social media detoxing through to virtual enemas for blogger buffs who find themselves 'backed up'.

Humans are supposed to be the pinnacle of creation, yet through our own exploration with technology we are deceivingly trained like pets. I type this post in a state of revelry, not quite awake nor asleep. Pushing all the right keys, I am a constituent of her as she is of me. Constantly drawn towards her presence. My life evolves around her sleek and carefully manufactured body. My weakness. My Veronica...

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