Are we human or are we technology?

In today's society, people can't do without technology. The most popular device used by mass culture is mobile phones, using these devices give us quicker access of communication. As these are imbedded as an extension of the human body that we can't go anywhere without. However this new technology plays a higher role in new media. When William Harvey's unearthed the circulatory system it leads to the impression that using technology to discover the system helps to evolve technology on discovering how the body functions.

"the concept of 'human' is unthinkable without technology but we act as if it is." (Shaw, 2008, p.81)

Society revolves around these technology such as laptops, mobile phones, tablets which we are growing up with, there is not that many people in society that are not I.C.T literate. These concepts can be associated with Michel Foucault who identifies

"the soldier is 'manipulated, shaped, trained' so that it 'obeys, responds," (Shaw, 2008, p.82)

As people we understand what it means to be human whether we are male or female. This considerations comes across from a higher power in the context of how we function and our appearance as a gender. Fred Pfeil discusses Bruce Springsteen's projection, and the icons that follow.

"he moves activate a form of consciousness that refers to industrial technology... masculine identity in a time of insecurity and flux."(Shaw, 2008. p.84) here he is then marked from fitness to health and also items of clothing as consumers. As this is relating to what is the norm to a mass culture, as society buys into produces created to be marked to their insecurities

"In Foucault's term...is a 'marked' body."(Shaw, 2008, p.85)

Cyberspace is often a retreat from the realization of influences that are market towards consumers, giving the attentive of being what or whoever they choose to be situated as their own individual. Gibson refers to this as

"bodiless exultation of cyberspace"(Gibson,2008, p.86)

As a conclusion humans wouldn't be able to progress information fast, if it wasn't for technology, in addition to technology couldn't be as advances without humans pursuing to establish further.

Bibliography
Shaw, D (2008) Technoculture: The Key Concepts (Oxford: Berg Press)