iDose; a digital drug

I recently found an article on the New Zealand Herald website which to me symbolised how technology has been taken to new levels and how we are living in a cyborg society. The article was called 'iDose: Teens using Youtube to get high.' The article discusses how teenagers are now using Youtube and other music sites to get an ecstasy like high. This emphasises how technology is everywhere in our lives and could be causing problems for young people.

This particular technology could lead to drug like addictions, and the fact that you have to pay for these trips, it could have the potential to be as harmful as real drugs such as ecstasy and alcohol. I thought that this related to what we discussed in lecture three on cyborgs, where we talked about how technologies are getting closer to our bodies such as earphones are getting smaller. Using technology is the perfect example of this.

iDose users can be linked into what we discussed about Mundane Cyborgs, where people are not meaning to make technology apart of their bodies and their everyday life but all of their everyday rituals are making it hard not to. Including a digital drug into everyday life would be very easy to do without knowing it.