Immediacy

In the piece Remediation, I particularly enjoyed the section about the double logic of remediation. It seems as if the main intent of modern day technology is to expedite the process at hand, while there are always complicated and more detailed types of technology.  “Immediacy depends upon hypermediacy. In the effort to create a seamless moving image, filmmakers combine live-action footage with computer compositing and two- and three-dimensional computer graphics” is especially interesting. The consumer wants everything as soon as possible, when in reality the producers go to great lengths to prove that the end result is immediate even though it is actually not.  

The transparent interface was something I had not known before, and in reading about it, I realized it is always around in every type of text. “Their view is that virtual reality (or digital technology in general) completes and overcomes the history of media”, I do not necessarily agree with this idea. 

Everything that came before us helped form and create the ideas and concepts that we have now. I do believe that the digital age far exceeds things that come before it, but it does not overcome or cancel out what once was. The fact that information is so immediate and widely acceptable is something that should work in our generations favor, because the accessibility to knowledge is so ready and willing. The digital advances have caused immediacy to be a constant in this time, but it is based on the fact that information and technology is so multidimensional.