Cyber Images

The cyber image that I found to be the most striking was that of the bald, naked woman watching television while attached to technological cables. This image is full of meaning and can be interpreted and connected to modern society in various ways. Firstly, I believe the image represents the way technology is blurring the distinction between humanity and technology. The cables, or whatever they are, attached to the woman are a part of her. However, the foreign, metal objects attached to her body seem to be of no concern to the woman. To her and the society she lives in, they're accepted and considered normal. She is essentially blending with technology, and it is a part of her as much as her arm or leg is. Secondly, the image is representative of the way that technology can reduce individuality and make people all the same, with the same thoughts, wants, and expectations. I think the fact that the woman is bald and nude was a deliberate choice for the creator of the image. The woman has no individuality anymore - it has been stripped from her. She has no privacy - the technology took that away as well. Instead of being her own, thinking person, she is just part o a community. She is gazing at the television with complete concentration, as if she has no thoughts of anything else. The technology has become her life, and is more real than anything else. It is her whole life, and there is no conceivable way of her functioning without it.