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Craig Connolly: The digital revolution is upon us. Technology has always played a major role in shaping the face of society and culture. Some would even argue that we stand to lose a fair bit in our pursuit of a technological utopia. Hi, I am Craig Connolly with watchmojo.com and today we will be discussing the digital profit and scholar Herve Fischer, the implications of technology, and what it truly means to be plugged in. What it is mean to live with in a digital culture?
Herve Fischer: Everything is dependant in our knowledge and soon, in our daily behavior, from the computers. Without the computer we are lost.
Craig Connolly: You present to your reader a variety of somewhat unbelievable and scary instances within the digital space that we live.
Herve Fischer: You get cyberterrorism, you get cyber criminality.
Female Speaker: We all know cyber criminals are more sophisticated these days.
Herve Fischer: Also stealing your identity.
Male Speaker: All right, new details are got now the biggest identity theft case ever, you've heard about this a 130 million, 130 million credit and debit cards were hacked.
Herve Fischer: Developing of kinds of monsters which you find in digital games. You find in the cyber world as many reasons to fear the future as dreams of being more happy, more powerful and so on.
Craig Cornell: Can you talk a bit about the Matrix and whether you see that type of realities of perceivable future?
Male Speaker: The Matrix is everywhere; it is all around us, even now in this very room.
Herve Fischer: All those science fiction films, very especially including The Matrix, they speak of our desires of our fears. So this is really up to date, Cave of Plato.
Male Speaker: The Matrix is a computer generated dream world, built to keep us under control in order to change the human being into this.
Herve Fischer: It's good to have films and literature that show the possibilities of the nightmare.
Craig Cornell: Your work Digital Shock confronting a new reality presents sort of blueprint towards establishing a new sort of philosophy. Can you talk about this new philosophy?
Herve Fischer: In North America, we have gurus who are technology addicts, who are utopists, who believe the computer will change totally our destiny.
Male Speaker: Phenomenally successful Quicktime 6, we're going into Quicktime 7 with Tiger, what's new about it?
Herve Fischer: So we are getting to a gap between the level of our intelligence, and the instrumental power which is going up. So how shall we meet the necessity to master the power of the technology with our brain, this is a cyber-philosophy.
Craig Connolly: If we were to participate in a digital culture and thought if it is a swimming whether we've lost in the sort of Cyber Ocean. Can you explain on that idea and give us a bit of your own interpretation?
Herve Fischer: We are swimming, we are manipulated by, we are depending from, we are slave to, if I don't have my cell telephone with me, I feel something is missing. Not my head, not my trousers, but something of my body when I speak of the digital shock, I believe this is also the shock of the future what we are experiencing is incredible and critical because if you like it you like it, you have to keep aware. It's quite interesting to see that we are all artists, we recreate the world, we recreate artificial world, artificial life, artificial intelligence, and the cyborg. And we believe that if it is artificial it will be much better. I'm very happy being alive today because I have so much to question.
Male Speaker: I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Alice, you're tumbling down in the rabbit hole.
Male Speaker: You can say that.
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