Paradox of our times

    Google has just released a concept video, which introduce their concept product-project glasses. The glasses use a micro-camera to scan in the image ahead, then display on the surface of the glasses. Although it is just a concept product, Google claim that they have made a breakthrough in this area. There is no doubt that his project glasses has drawn public’s enormous attention, but also cause debate about whether it is good to overuse the virtual technology, the technology to simulate the real world.

    Actually, virtual technology has permeated into every aspect of our daily life. Social networks, as a typical example, show the common function of virtual technology. It is just like the personal networks in real world and even more efficient and powerful than in real world. You can freely communicate with your old friends and find new friends that you will probably never know without the social networks. Because of these advantages, social networks become increasingly popular; hence comes the series of troubles that people tend to spend more time on virtual world instead of the real world. This gradually grows to a global issue with the development of the virtual technology. Of course, this is merely an example; there are a great deal of other examples of this paradox: which one is better, real or reel? Virtual technology is like a aisle connect the virtual world and real world, when you go through it for so many times, you may find yourself puzzle about which side is reality.

    This is a confusing and strange age. Advance of the virtual technologies make people have the sense the same as in reality, but also make them fall into dilemma baffle of distinguishing real and reel. There are so many paradoxes with the development of the virtual technology in our time that we hardly know who we are, where we are and where to go. Maybe we have to consider what on earth the virtual technology brings us more seriously.