UNIT VI
17. CONCEPT FRUIT
. This is a short story related to the internet, happened in a middle class family. Greta the 16year old daughter is a differently- abled and not good at studies, but admires her father’s computer expertise. The father tries to encourage the girl. The son is just 11 years old and is good at computer. But he is not interested in it. He, instead, prefers Karate. The mother also is indifferent. The father says that he can make a house for Greta in the internet. The house has several rooms and in each room there will be bowls of fruit. The father shows the picture of the house in the internet with bowls of fruit in every room. The girl wants a real house and fruit. There is clash between the virtual house in the internet and the real house.
18. IS SOCIETY DEAD
The essay ‘Is Society Dead’ gives us a critical perspective on the use of technology that isolates human from social life. Man is a social animal and his five senses are instruments to connect to society. Ears are for listening to the myriads of sounds coming from the world. The author tells us how the i- pod has blocked our ears to the sounds of the world and voice of other human beings. It has even changed the shared music to an isolated and secret one. Once earphone is fixed in the ear, we lose contact with the wonderful world of sounds around us. The author exhorts us to open up our senses to the surprising experience of the human world and thus become part of it.
19. THE CYBERSPACE
Modern psyche makes rules instead of following them. Cyberspace gives us this freedom of making our own rules. Today cyberspace is reached and used by everyone. This evokes discussion regarding its misuse. Cyberspace is a collection of spaces: suitable to children, to the grown-ups and some suit to everyone. It is a vast real estate. These are public spaces and private spaces. E-mail is private and a video sharing site is public. It needs self-ruler controlled by the choice of visitors and users. This multi functionality makes cyberspace very attractive. Private spaces like e-mail needs no control. The information and entertainment websites are to be partially regulated. Social net-work sites must moderate discussions. Cyberspace of the future is to be ruled by self-reliant communities to support like-minded people. This will form a global village.
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