Explain the interaction of human, nature and technology.
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The relationship we have with smartphones is fascinating – philosophically this is a form of mind extension, intertwined with our cognition. It’s called active externalism – the human disposition to use any object available to help us to think. Through this we can explore human nature – using digital clues about what we are doing, thinking, how we are feeling or presenting ourselves. This has allowed the smartphone to become a proxy for the user, permitting insights into individual differences on the one hand and letting us to see how society currently functions and naturally structures on the other.
A strong alignment with groups. Responsible for the success of the smartphone is its relevance to the human social brain. This is the neocortex region that provides the ability to manage complex relationships within large social groups, and is disproportionately large in humans compared to other species. This is deep rooted in ancient history, evolving through humans finding survival advantage from cooperating in groups to overcome more powerful predators. A lot of human time involves thinking and reasoning about our social groups – a particularly time consuming function that constrains the size of our own social group are the bonding processes to establish and maintain relationships. The smartphone and social networks provide realtime channels for observation and interaction without being in the same place. This offers potential efficiencies to those seeking to build relationships. But we are not wholly dependent on a digital channel – due to our biology we still need to meet…
We instinctively gossip and self-compare. Continued evolution through living in large groups has led to sophisticated social capabilities, sparking the evolution of language some 250,000 years ago. We navigate and learn about our social world through gossip and self-comparison, with 60-70% of interactions in human conversations on social topics. This provides us with a basis to gauge and understand other people and also ourselves. Here the smartphone has a role to play. At any time of day we can explore our thoughts about friends. We can also take a degree of influence and proactivity in our self-presentation – selectively projecting cues across our social networks in real time – a checkin at Starbucks, a retweet, a “like” and so on. Through the smartphone our social projections are received by “group” members with immediacy and then straight into the social brain.