The Scene of the Screen - Book Report/Review Example

While something like the wheel, for example, made life much more convenient it also altered our patterns of behavior. It helped create roads and shape the ways people went from one town to the next, and how they thought of themselves. Likewise, Sobchack argues, modern technology—often represented or played out on a screen—has created enormous possibilities for entertainment and convenience, but also altered our way of existence and how we see ourselves in this world. One of the main Sobchack’s main points is that this technology may be making us more superficial.

Just as photographs took the subject out of time and fixed his or her immediate image in one place to be observed forever, so might the endless imaging and recording of our world do the same to us. She seems to be very critical of this idea or at least to believe that it is happening without us really realizing it.