A device typically free from suspicion, a keyboard, is transformed into a vessel: its keys lighting up to spell an ominous message. As all input devices, the keyboard too was originally created to facilitate communication and has over time become an instrument of surveillance and control.
How uncomfortable can omnipresent surveillance really be if we seem to have so swiftly accepted and welcomed it into our lives as nothing more but a fact of navigating through the digital age? Why do we, as sentient humans, remain largely unperturbed by the constant monitoring of our lives? Even perhaps craving for a certain amount of steady attention, if you want to phrase it more benevolently? Have we really become so desensitized or is it just apathy?
We continue to embrace technology and its conveniences in our most private settings while it never stops to signal its insidious nature. Even if this were the same old stale wake-up call, urging us to reconsider our relationship with technology, we have become so used to putting it on snooze and not questioning the implications of our digital footprints further than the next notification popping up, pulling us out of whatever we were just doing.
Yet another ignored plea to be more vigilant.
