The Ecstasy of Communication

Baudrillard comments on the increasing personification of objects within our daily lives. An object is no longer just an object but a 'partner'. This changes our relationship with our environment and how we connect to it, how we live through it. Object mutations come from three things, Baudrillard says; functionalization, controlling your surroundings not with your body but by electronic commands and minimization of processes. We no longer are active in our surroundings, we control by communicating through inanimate objects. They become a vital part of our environments and therefore we personify them. We are addicted to instantaneous action and the speed of communication through electronic means. These instants of communication have miniaturized all exchanges into a succession of instants, instant messaging, instant email, we control our surroundings and all exchanges from our computer. These messages lack thought, authenticity and a sense of importance. So we clutch to these electronic devises that make our lives easier for fear we won't remember how to communicate without them. Should we try to change this path we are heading down or is it inevitable to allow our bodies to disintegrate along with our method of communication?