The Ecxtasy of Communication

The emergence of television gave people many conveniences, we just turn on the TV and could know what happened in the world, could get the information you need. So people more and more depend on it, from choosing the information you need to accepting information passively. It seems that we know everything, in fact, we just know what the television told us. Whoever or whatever that is important or not, if it occupies the television, it becomes important and focus of our world. We are controlled by the television, surrounded by the screen.

We are filled with information and communication, and controled by them. We seems know more things than before, but we do not know the essence of them. We have more and more information but we do not know the meaning of them. The media dissolve the meaning of objects. When we do not have meaning but information, the information and communication are useless.

Automobile shortens the distance of us. But with the speed culminating, people began to pursue the optimalization of other functions. The automobile is like a capsule, then the desire to be the master of the speed weakened. From this perspective, the psychological dimension disappears. But I think psychological dimension does not disappear, but transforms into a frantic state that the automobile becomes the collection of the functions.