Postmodern Virtualities

As Mark Poster was writing his "Postmodern Virtualities" in the 1990's, he definitely saw where technology was going and how fast it was going to affect our society. While learning about the revolution of communication that the mobile phone has done for many different cultures in my International Media class, here it relates to what Poster describes as "the Communication Superhighway". The mobile phone, as well as internet and various other technologies, have been able to not only connect people across the globe, but also give much needed information to different societies. In my International Media class, we learned about mobile phones used in rural parts of Africa as means of acquiring fish sales or other means of their markets. The ability to receive information that fast for those people as changed a lot aspects of their lives. One thing that must be brought to the attention though, is that for places such as rural parts of Africa, their infrastructure is not as stable or a powerful as say ours. Therefore just giving them technology does very little in helping them achieve the kind of technical world in which we all live in today. 

Relating this back to Poster,  he speaks to the dominant class having the means to obtain all the power and material wealth. This reality has been made to strive for the next faster, better, more gadgety way or communicating or accessing information from anywhere. All the while new gadgets are coming out daily, therefore relating it to the movie we watched last year- the Ad and the Ego, you the consumer are not okay if you don't purchase blank. I think we do have to be careful of imposing these ideologies on not only our society but other countries has well. In some cases helping out rural parts of the world by giving them computers and such, does more harm then good by the fact that our new technologies creating ideologies of the elite having the power.