The disappearance of a sense of entity

This article can be used as the "distance between people and things" sequel, in the "distance between people and things" in this article, the main discussion is from the traditional handicraft to industrialization, when the market and the Division of labor, People and things appeared in isolation. This one will be discussed with the deepening of the digital revolution, the distance between people and things again be pulled large-the disappearance of the sense of entity.

Digital revolution, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/32728.html "> Information society, 0101, virtual world, expanding reality ... In fact, now we are no longer talking about the word virtual world, it has never existed, but we live out of the new era of some worry and wait-and-live isolation of a concept, now we not only embraced the digital age, but also look forward to a more in-depth revolution. So now everyone is jubilant or gloating over the disappearance of traditional books, looking forward to the full arrival of the digital E-book reading era, perhaps not long ago to defend the traditional texture. The digital age is like a black hole, inhaling a solid civilization (Oh my god! Its full of stars! Into something that has lost its entity representation, and perhaps later refers to the word "book", we will be completely different from the present point, just like "words", in the writing era and the input of the Times feel different, the letter of the entity also disappeared, the keyboard is also disappearing, perhaps a row of entities waiting to ascend into heaven.

Here we discuss and explore change.

Switch changes

Back in the electric age, I saw an old woman will not use the electric light, probably after her dementia, I saw many times she put a small stool in a chair, and then climbed up, picked up from the ceiling of the light bulb, keep blowing.

My grandmother, I mentioned before, she only uses the pull-string switch, when it comes to other forms of switch she will only ask me to help, and use the pull switch, always in the "drop" after a pause for a long time, to confirm that the lights have been extinguished will let go, complete the "answer", and every time the blackout, She will soon light up her oil lamp, I can feel her kind of "veteran" excitement and positive.

And then I see the jitters coming from my parents ' generation as they press the membrane switch.

And now I like to watch people use computers and touch screens, I find that a lot of people are "impatient" and this "impatience" includes "trepidation", especially when a machine or computer or cell phone responds, sometimes by pressing the second time before the machine reacts, and then the third time, for the fourth time, they are so uneasy, Completely without the mechanical switch when the kind of chic.

The logic and even principle of the mechanical switch we can understand, but the key to digital products, whether physical or virtual, we need to master the rules.

The dominance of the screen

Wherever we go, we are watching the screen, big and small. We are always imagining or designing glasses-type computers that can easily combine numbers and reality, and in fact we are now, just not putting the screen on the bridge of the nose.

We have no longer trust in our own eyes and need the help of the screen. Perhaps in one of our street, see a sell roast sweet potato, in deciding whether to buy before, take out a cell phone to shoot a sweet potato two-dimensional code, and then a variety of information systems will give a reference, such as the baked sweet potato was born, it baked in the end incense is not fragrant.

Expert systems and self-appreciation

We have a variety of expert systems, wikis, public comments, friends recommended, watercress guess, when we need to make a choice, we can get enough reference information, even the final decision. Perhaps, these references are good enough, even from the utilitarian point of view, it is more valuable than the appreciation of the self.

When we recognize and evaluate a thing, these experts, information and knowledge will come to the initiative, however, it will occupy time and space, so the personal and social existence and communication are beginning to rise to the knowledge level.

The individual appreciation force disappears

Appreciation does not necessarily have to be evaluated, but it takes time to appreciate, when we are occupied by information, our appreciation is a taste, as the individual his appreciation of the development is suppressed, and through social information and knowledge exchange to make up, perhaps the whole society's appreciation of the power in the improvement, But this improvement is based on the intensification of social communication.

The time we stare is compressed and compressed into recognition. That is, the more illogical things of man are logically digitized, and the nature of some animals is obliterated.

Weakening of sensory force

We are more and more dependent on the visual, and the visual main energy spent on recognition, perhaps we will be from the "Fallen leaves know Autumn" into "know Autumn Leaves" or "know autumn to find leaves."

Touch may no longer matter, just like the leather in the IPad interface. The traditional sense of scale, proportion, order and equilibrium are also weakened.

When we know an object, the most direct reaction has been replaced by the habit of the digital age, such as naming, keyword, index. We say that human laziness is the driving force of progress, but in some fundamental senses it is also constantly seeping into laziness, which can be said to be either evolution (like the wisdom body) or degenerate.

When it is infiltrated, perception is replaced by knowledge and information, just as a group of people are talking about "knowing what" around an artwork.

Social division of Labor and Daily conflict

But we only make a screw on the assembly line, we just around the screws, unable to create and understand the whole, while the other people are making a nut, so when we communicate, we can only tell them how the screw, and listen to them say how the nut. When we are unable to create a holistic thing, the appreciation of our consumption behavior is particularly important, and this appreciation relies more on knowledge.

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Perhaps the prophet of the future is blind.

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