New Aesthetic Post

Divers Arrested After viewing so many of the videos, photos, and posts that display complex understatements, news information, artwork and other aspects involved in advancing technology, I found a post that particularly grabbed my attention over others on The New Aesthetic's blog. This post truly opened my eyes in how technology exists in the "real" world.

The short post merely informs the viewer that some divers were arrested near Alexandria by Egypt's naval forces because they were caught cutting a submarine line belonging to Egypt's main communications company. Aside from the politics involved in this post, as some saboteurs might be behind this event, what truly struck me was how technology is involved in our world today.

Every day we hop on the intangible waves of the digital world and communicate with someone at point B while we sit over at point A. Although it might occur ever so often to us that the internet and other digital forms of communications exist physically somewhere in this world (in this case, under the sea)--aside from the fundamental knowledge we contain on how it exists intangibly--we understand that it lives around us and encompasses our every day lives with accessibility.

What created an eye opener for me was reading about divers accessing the true source, or heart, of a certain communication and vandalizing it's existence. What seems invincible and always present in our lives suddenly becomes non-existent and lifeless. The figure of speech for cutting the cord suddenly becomes physically applicable and to something that seems it could never be tampered with. The fact that Egypt struggled temporarily with communications and bringing back a technology that seemed it would always exists brings a certain fact into my mind: that as invincible and autonomous as technology seems to be in this day and age, it is still fully dependent on human actions and our nature. One person's intention to rid this intangible phenomena can actually develop into the action of ending it's existence by the snip of a cable.

So what really struck me is we have progressed so much in technology that I, as a human being in this technical era, have become so dependent on it that suddenly when it doesn't surround me (or in this case a particular country) it seems unreal. I couldn't fathom what our world would be like if suddenly all forms of our communications and digital sources were "snipped" from our lives.

What has concealed itself as tangible instead of intangible over the years because we are so involved in it, blows my mind when it abruptly reveals itself as dependent on us instead of us being dependent upon it. It is a circuit of dependence. For something that we rely on so much, and even be intangible, to be taken away from us...to me seems unreal. In my mind, or society's, it is expected that we will always be able to communicate with that one person at point B, thanks to the phenomena that elusively exists in our atmosphere.