Intention

The story I chose is set in a world in which humans are deeply integrated with technology, such that some humans are nearly entirely cyborg with only their brain remaining organic. It was also written in the early 90's, and the cultural anxiety over technology and losing our self-identity to machines is strongly reflected in the questions it explored. Twenty years later, no one would say that we are at the kind of integration Ghost in the Shell describes, but I think we are still more strongly tied to our digital selves than we could have imagined a few decades ago. 

Our online personas are often curated and perfected, but inevitably they become a digital footprint of ourselves. The content we feel is worth following and sharing is indicative of our own identity, regardless of how hard we try to remain anonymous. While Ghost in the Shell asks what happens when machine resembles man, I'd like to take a more contemporary turn and ask what happens when social media resembles man.

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