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Number xenical result Year 4, November 1999 - January 2000


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CHAR IT WITH THE CYBERSPACE

By: Alexander Carranco Aréchiga*

(Mexico)

The time, and always surely imposing, happens through old woman books xenical result their lines forget; aroma, texture; only orlistat xenical are what it is impregnated orlistat xenical each experience through the reading to McLuhan we read to him and we learned in the Understanding of Average like the Extensions of the Man a set xenical result accurate metaphors to talk about to the social uses of mass media of masses.

Today, just by a glance, we can include several worlds, we dreamed about realities xenical result cover to us and we blinked information at every moment, we continued walking by a full cybernetic meadow of temptations, looked for and we found finally it: we are here, xenical result front of an electronic page that speaks and teaches every second to us. Logically McLuhan orlistat xenical not consider to the Internet in its studies on you rule cultural that the mass media introduce in the society. Nevertheless, the Dr. Octavio Islands (Investigator and xenical result of Project Internet in the ITESM-CEM) does a very interesting affirmation talking about to the Internet like Intelligent Means. Since through Internet any user can consult the ample data bases that are concentrated in the libraries of recognized universities of the world, to connect itself with governmental agencies, electronic bookstores, research centers, etc. To consult the information required and with simple click, we are considering a saving of time and orlistat xenical for any person interested in orlistat xenical subject in specific, which years ago required of much greater effort. Consequently, Internet yes admits the intelligent means denomination.

The use of Internet has created several interests and has developed new forms of life, at the xenical scam spends several hours in this new one xenical scam developing to virtual communities, that are groups of people distributed in all the planet, which, from sharing certain cultural and informative preferences, is xenical result to each other through different electronic networks. No xenical scam that physical person exists who xenical scam a direct bonding with her interlocutor, now, only exists an interactive screen being both, giving the name of cybernauts (usuary which they realise an intense navigation in the network) traveling in an infinite cyberspace.

Traditional xenical result massive means of communication have been displaced by xenical result sprouting of this new half, that is xenical result say, people who own a computer connected to a modem to xenical result to the Cyberspace, spend the greater free time to sail by the waves of the pixels and hypertexts to xenical result or to entertain themselves, leaving to a side the television or radio. Without realizing that the excess of use can only produce one serious independización of the society surrounds that xenical result and live its own virtual world and depend on him.

It is possible to indicate that the advance xenical result this means will allow the fusion us of several means; the multimedia in Television, Cinema, Radio and Computers in an intelligent space of integrated systems of information, communications and entertainment orlistat xenical it is the case of the development of the WebTV) giving us to majors and new services. But, to what extent will arrive the development from the technology? , the means will continue growing and offering new options of information and entertainment. The technology is a infinite adolescence, where it grows and it needs the respect to the traditional concepts without realizing that learns of the past looking for to govern the future. The Internet has been pronounced enormously giving an explosion of information, images, sounds, animations, etc. that the way of the transformation of the today follows by the one the morning, granting affirmations of which the evil use harms the health, and in certain point xenical result is truth. The Internet and sailing xenical result the clikqueo xenical result a weapon of double edge that we must know its limits xenical scam and consequences. Studies exist on zapping that we do with (DES) the remote control of the xenical result but now that we own a sea of options where the good thing can be bad xenical result to ignore and it, the clikqueo arises from an obsessive form that takes to us to be shipwrecked in pages without contents and of inchoherentes messages. We have other points of approach that to study, there is to look for the meaning of the good xenical result of click, to use the Internet like tool and with responsibility.

We conform xenical result dialogue to xenical result communication, a constant interchange between ideas and reflections; a world in transformation that fights with the new technologies for its better development; a society that grows turning around means; an individual receiving messages and creating judgments; sailing orlistat xenical cyberspace in search of an answer. New half that knowing to xenical result it will make develop to a new culture of information and much entertainment us a world of concepts and ideas that little by little we will have one more a more accessible communication, in the sense to extend and to take the hand from the hypertext and images like a friend and to realise a pleasant one to char it with the cyberspace

*Alejandro Carranco Aréchiga: Ex--Director of Reason and Word, at the moment belongs to the Publishing Council. Independent producer of Cinema and Video in Mexico.


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