Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace?
Roy Ascott
The past decade has seen the two powerful technologies of
computing and telecommunications converge into one field of
operations that has drawn into its embrace other electronic
media, including video, sound synthesis, remote-sensing, and
a variety of cybernetic systems. These phenomena are exerting
enormous influence upon society and on individual behaviour;
they seem increasingly to be calling into question the very
nature of what it is to be human, to be creative, to think
and to perceive, and indeed our relationship to each other
and to the planet as a whole.
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