Poster

Poster tackles the flow and distribution of information, as a sense of creating or falsely creating reality.  One of the news issues he brings to light is the fast growing superhighway.

"Information superhighways are being constructed that will enable a vast increase in the flow of communications" (535).  This is already a reality facing us today.  We are capable of sending anything, almost anywhere if the technology is present.  Further relating to this, he states "the metaphor of the "superhighway" only attends to the movement places, work areas and electronic cafes in which this vast transmission of images and words becomes places of communicative relation" (535).

In a sense, this raises the issue of whether the information being transmitted through the "information superhighways" can be reality.  While they are replications, technology in todays age has allowed such a high level of "replication" that it could almost be reality.  Further, something created using high levels of technology or computers create the image/program within.  For instance, if you created an graphic using a computer, and you print a copy, then you have the original.  But what about the second copy (if image was not altered)?  There is nothing separated it from the first, other than the known fact that it came to the "real life" a few minutes later.  Can that be another copy of he original?  Can we have more than one?

I think here is another example of how technology confuses our perceptions of reality, along with mechanical reproduction.   Technology has created such a thin line between the original and replication, but how far (or how close) can it bring us.  Almost sounds a bit like cloning.