Firstly the word "technocentricism' refers to technology being the centre of everything, and "postmodernity" is a late 20th century movement in the arts, architecture and criticism that was a departure from modernism. Therefore what Konik is saying is that basically we as humans of the postmodern world has become so centred to technology that most of the things we do today depends on technology, for example: in this assignment 1 blog entries we had options to either write all this information on an exercise book and hand it in for marking or we could use the internet and upload to a blog instead, well the option we chose is quite obvious, I mean we are the so-called generation X. Even our elders knows us as always staring on the screens of our cellphones, computers, and with smartwatches and technological glasses being on the developing stage at the moment one can say that we are never going back and will forever miss on the physical contact we used to experience with other people when growing up. Today we rely on technology for everything and this is because everything is online, from the answers to the question we have on our everyday lives, to the step to step tutorials about anything we need to do. Therefore Konik has a point by arguing that we are being dehumanized by technology through refering to a movie called Sonrezo's Pulse.
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