Our relationship to the internet

I have recently started to question some aspects of HCI research. Why is information technology the only material we consider in our research and always seen as the end? What are we missing out? Do every aspect of life need to be a communication technology solution? Are we becoming experts with a very questionable view on society? Or. Maybe I have misunderstood somehting? Maybe I'm wrong?

I think this is an ogoing thing... we are starting to ask ourselves... now that we have basically proved that we can design anything in anyt kind of situation, giving raise to all kinds of experiences.

Below is a link to a story about a guy who lived one year without internet. Very interesting example that says something about how connected we are to eachother through internet. We identify ourselves through our connnections.  I think this is a beautiful example of that hate and love relationship to information technology, that is visualizing and manifesting our relationship to the world and to our friends and colleagues. Still, somehow we consider ourselves to have a relationship to internet too?Or at least some do:

"I was wrong.

One year ago I left the internet. I thought it was making me unproductive. I thought it lacked meaning. I thought it was "corrupting my soul." It's a been a year now since I "surfed the web" or "checked my email" or "liked" anything with a figurative rather than literal thumbs up. I've managed to stay disconnected, just like I planned. I'm internet free. And now I'm supposed to tell you how it solved all my problems. I'm supposed to be enlightened. I'm supposed to be more "real," now. More perfect."....

Read the full story here:

"I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet