Argument Outline

Argument Outline:

a.) Shifts in communication media change culture and self-understanding radically because the character of human interaction is a most basic influence on self-awareness and identity in relation to other "selves", like people.

b.) Extreme changes in communication media, such as the printing press, computer, and world wide web, radically transform the cultural content created by people, because those interacting on the "web" are changed by the media through which they interact.

c.)Technology is expanding in complexity and ubiquity. It is an exponential expansion: Brain-Computer Interface technologies, Artificial Intelligences, RFID's, and a plethora of technologies that shape personal interaction follow this pattern and have already revolutionized the way people identify themselves through these tools.

d.) Humans and computers are already being physically (e.g BrainGate) and figuratively (e.g Google) blended with computers, and artificial intelligences becoming more powerful and integrated into the physical and internet world.

e.) Integration of the web into the physical world is creating a super-consciousness among those people with access to the web and this will change the development of the "self" dramatically: non-human persons with A.I are expected to interact with humans so frequently that it becomes normal.

f.) Thus, the more communication media and brain-computer interface technologies expand, and the more the internet and physical world are integrated, the more complex and diverse personal self-identity becomes.