Week 8

So last session we learnt how to insert tables, and how to adjust the layout and well by playing around with it, we learnt how simple it was.
We decided that we wanted our group wiki to look eye-catching yet elegant, and i think we definitely have achieved that. Thanks to the great people who are in my group!
A member of my group also advised us to write a little about our personal identity on-line, which i thought was a great idea. Not only are we voicing our opinions on identity itself, and focusing on case studies, but also the fact that we can write something about our own on-line identity and how we feel about it allows us to explore it more in depth.

Recently i was working on an essay regarding cyberspace/cyborgs. I found it amazing how relevant it was to this particular module too. Well i guess as i read more in to it i realised what it was about and i started relating it to our theme of identity.
Cyberspace the space in which all online communication floats, and is what turns sites like "Second life" into a virtual reality.

I read an auto-biography written by Kevin Warwick, who experimented on himself to become a "cyborg", half human and half machine, which meant he had to have a silicon-chip implanted into his arm.
Its madness like this that makes you think about whether or not technology is actually a good thing or a bad thing, or even how people are getting so involved with technology that they are actually becoming it! This is absurd if you ask me!
This can even relate directly to Second life it self, how people are becoming so unaware of how they are getting an addiction to technology that they are actually becoming a part of it, to the extent that they create their own profiles characters, buy and sell their own land/properties.
Is technology supposed to help us sustain the identity we have, or is it to alter it?
Well, i guess that's up to the individual themselves, and ho far they would take things to either create a new identity, or sustain the one that they have.
Is it even possible for us to have more then one identity? Well, i know it sounds like a stupid question, but many years ago we would have answered differently.