Through it all, the self threatens to become disconnected, disengaged from the body. We become digitally disincarnated, people who can live and be online, present only in a virtual, mediated sense. Increasingly who we are is no longer the person people meet face-to-face, but the mediated identity we have created. At first, we merely extended a sense of self into cyberspace, but eventually it took root there and in some cases now threatens to surpass the real self—the self that includes not just a mind and a soul but a physical presence as well.
wow. this is me, i fear.
