Remember when nature was something real, tangible? Not just exploited in museums called national parks or manipulated for TV? How did that happen? When did nature die? Well, it occurred in parallel with the rise of the screen. Our bodies now are little more than projected surfaces. Our new realties exist only on the screen. If fact, we're convincing ourselves we love it that way.
Today, all our senses are being reproduced. What will this new digital future look like? Certainly not like this. Our new virtual bodies will be sold to us, one product at a time, until flesh and blood fade into digital bits.
The fun of a newly re-mediating behavior appeared innocuous enough. But it's too late version two is here. Everything is becoming a screen... including you and me, because we all look better - and "reality" looks better - when we watch each other on our screens. Stick a fork in it, nature is dead. We love our own images better.
10/07/07