Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that our physical bodies are no longer sufficient to engage with the complexities of reality; instead, technology serves as the new interface for our experiences.
Nam June Paikβs quote reflects on the transformative power of technology in our lives, implying that our traditional human senses and physical interactions are inadequate for fully engaging with the modern world. As we increasingly rely on digital interfaces, technology takes on the role of an essential extension of our existence, reshaping how we perceive reality and interact with each other.
In practice
In a discussion about the role of technology in modern communication, one might use this quote to emphasize how our interactions have shifted.
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link.
Technology is a tool, and it's a platform. Nobody gets arrested for being a blogger; people get arrested for dissent. Nobody gets arrested for putting information about themselves online; they get arrested for being an activist. I'm a strong believer in the fact that you should not blame the tools; you should blame the circumstances.
I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out your iPhone and go to Google. The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up.... You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).
There's an assumption that women don't start companies that earn more than X amount of dollars, or that have more than X amount of users, and Bumble is now really growing into one of the main players if you look at all the mainstream social-media platforms.
Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.
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