The main point of the essay titled Where do you want to go today? Cybernetic tourism, the internet, and transnationality is about the internet and how things are portrayed on the internet. They can see virtual tours online showing people and places and also see the way different nationalities live or don't live. The internet only seems to show what you want to see and sometimes hides the truth. The ads sell on TV and people buy the products or go to places because of what they see. Sometimes they are disappointed because they only know half of the truth, but all in all the internet sells and it seems as if everyone uses it.
When you are using the internet to search for places to travel, they show you all of the good. You can see an African safari or the Amazonian rain forest. You won't see the poor people or the people that die from animal attacks, but all of the good things about the place (s). You see the birds or the pretty rivers. A person decides where they want to go by the images that they seen online. Technology affects the way that the world is run today and the images that people see. 'If technology will indeed make everyone, everything, and every place the same, as "Anthem" claims in its ambivalent way, then where is there left to go? What is there left to see? What is the use of being asked where you want to go today if every place is just like here? Difference, in the form of exotic places or exotic people, must be demonstrated iconographically in order to shore up the Western user's identity as himself.' The world has turned into a virtual world with technology being in charge.
On the internet everyone is portrayed the same. In a Coca-cola ad everyone is the same and the slogan is 'I'd like to teach the world to sing.' There are black and white people, young and old people and they are all one. The people are holding hands, singing, and drinking coca-cola. Human diversity sometimes doesn't exist in the real world, but on TV and the internet everyone is the same. The ideal world would be where everything is the same but everyone knows that it doesn't exist like that.
The internet and TV (media) changes how people perceive life. Like I said, technology dominates society and people depend on it. Where would the world be without the advances of technology? Why does everything have to revolve around it? I wish that things would go back and everyone or everything wouldn't be so dependent on the internet or TV. Maybe one day things will be different. The author makes her point clear and uses good evidence to support her idea on technology and cyberspace.
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