Sunday, January 26, 2014

Compter love: love digitally personafied



while taking this course, i happily remembered this classic tune by Zapp & Roger. In 1985, the hit "Computer Love" came to be a smash hit within an era obsessed with technology and electronics. Riddled with computer bleeps and robotic vocals, "Computer Love" is futuristic groove concerned with the futuristic, "digital feelings of love. But how can the concept of love, a feeling so tied to the soul and to human emotion, be quantified in a technological context? Well, the song actually does a very good job of doing such a thing. In one song abandons the typical obsession with astrology pertaining to love, and instead thanks "modern technology" in finding companionship. This is just one instance in which a human feeling is molded into a technological essence. As such, technology becomes the basis for which many important aspects of the human condition are molded into.

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