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Essay on Links between Psychology and Technology
Introduction
The novel “Neuromancer” by William Gibson presents a rather different kind of science fiction which is set in the amoral urban rage of the punk subculture and depicts the developing human-machine interface created by the widespread use of computers and computer networks, set in the near future in decayed city landscapes. The book was the first cyberpunk novel which presents an illusion to contemporary technology. Gibson imagined a future, and this vision has proven remarkably influential, wherein the "heroes" would be those who could function best within the realm of computer generated artificial reality.
Today, when human – computer interface have become very much advanced and important, many of the ideas that have been presented in the book appear to be very antihuman. The ideas presented in the book indicated that it will be the human who is to be controlled by the requirements of the machine, rather the machine being designed for the use of the human. In the book the Internet is commonly referred to as "Cyberspace" or--occasionally--"the Matrix" and the book attempts to present a world in which humans interact with each other through computers as well as interacting with computers. Humans interfacing with computers or with each other via computers can create artificial versions of them, use pseudonyms, adopt different online personalities, etc. They can "fight" in simulated games; argue in "chat rooms" and so on. But at the end of the day, when they shut off their computers, they will have done nothing to change the world or themselves for the better (Gibson, 1995).
In this brief paper, an attempt has been made to investigate the links between psychology and technology that have been presented in the novel.
Concepts related to Human Psychology and Technology presented in Neuromancer
Gibson’s book presents the dangers that are present for humans who are living in a pervasive computing age.................
