[Just some thoughts] Connections in the Internet age

In the Internet age nowadays, it seems that physical distances have been overcome. By creating a kind of parallel universe, the Internet has brought up something like "the death of distance", "the world is flat", etc. (you name it) as it's been believed. Yup, but the real distance still exits, here and there. It has been thought to vanquished the geography, mentally.But ironically and paradoxcically enough, deep down, maybe it also creates a more profound sense of distance resulting from a sense of longing to connect with the help of devices.

When one is contacting someone far far away via some tools, what one receives is just the bit-based information. Although the image and the voice are the same in the light of overall display, the same as when one communicates with her or him in person or face-to-face, however, it's undeniable that face-to-face situations are so different from face-to-device ones in which the human-directed sense-based information is transformed into the device-directed bit-based one.

That sense of islolation occurs to one’s mind especially when he or she knows for sure that they cannot really bridge the distance, physically. So this is where the sense jumps in. The virtual connection stirs up the sense which otherwise just lies deep in one’s mind and sometimes rises up in, say, a certain rainy evening in a certain familiar street.

Hence, the idea of “the death of distance”, for me, is just a false, misleading statement no more no less. It just make us fantasize about a true connection.

Yet, it’s not all that bad. It also helps us to accept the fate. The fate of loneliness