현대 기술의 환상 속 고독과 소외

### 연결의 아이러니: 기술 시대의 외로움
* 🤖 이 글은 특히 현대 기술의 맥락에서 외로움이라는 주제를 탐구하며, **우리를 연결하기 위해 고안된 도구가 어떻게 고립을 심화**시킬 수 있는지를 강조합니다.
* 📱 엘리엇이라는 캐릭터는 타인에 대한 사적인 정보를 알고 있음에도 불구하고 **친숙함이 진정한 연결과 동일시되지 않는 현대 커뮤니케이션의 역설**를 잘 보여줍니다.
* 💔 의미 있는 대화 대신 이모티콘을 보내는 등의 피상적인 상호작용에서 볼 수 있듯이, **기술이 친밀감의 환상을 만들어 친밀감을 느끼게 하면서도 실제로는 거리를 조장하는 아이러니**가 존재합니다.
* 📊 60년대부터 지금까지의 조사에 따르면 인구 밀도가 증가하더라도 **절친한 친구의 수가 줄어드는 것**으로 나타나 외로움이 커지고 있음을 알 수 있습니다.
* 💻 해킹은 단순한 기술적 기술이 아닌 **인간의 결함을 악용하는 수단**으로 묘사되며, 시스템과 개인 관계 모두에 내재된 취약성에 대한 심도 있는 해설을 드러냅니다.
* 🎓 내레이터는 여자 친구에게 잘 보이려고 **대학 이메일 서버를 해킹**했던 개인적인 경험을 이야기하며, 기술 문화에서 젊은이들의 반항과 관련된 무모한 행동이 종종 있음을 보여줍니다.
* 🔍 해커의 하위 문화는 자신감 있고 사회적으로 능숙한 것으로 묘사되는 대중 매체와 달리 **종종 소외감을 느끼고 사회적으로 불안해하는 것**으로 묘사됩니다.
* 🌐 궁극적으로 이 논의는 기술이 연결의 약속을 제공하지만, 이러한 관계를 탐색하는 개인에게 **소외감과 복잡한 심리적 환경**을 초래하는 경우가 많다는 점을 강조합니다.

엘리엇의 투쟁은 외로움과 고립을 심화시키는 동시에 연결에 대한 기술의 환상을 강조합니다.

[Music] So one thing I wanted to ask you about is your episode in college. So I'm working at the computer lab because nerds, that's what we do, we work at computer labs. And um, and I was like obnoxious, and I was like the man, and non-conformist, and you know, yeah, I don't care about anything, and that you know, whatever. I was really annoying, and I had my girlfriend at the time to this small college in Pennsylvania. And um, and so I decided to be super cool and like hack the mail server. This is like '95, so this is like when email was pretty new and the internet was pretty new. And I hacked very easily, like there was no security because nobody knew anything at the time. So I hacked their email servers and sent an email out basically saying, you know, you know, this college sucks, and you know, you know, this is your, this is, you know, whatever, like, you know, take down the system. And like, I was just trying to impress my girlfriend.

I wrote this dumb thing. Oh man, all from my workstation where I was working at the computer lab, where they easily traced the IP back and the timestamp of, oh, who was working there then. And I uh immediately got fired and was put on academic probation. And uh, that's when I stopped hacking. There you go, gotcha, sorry. That's when I was like, this is not for me. But like the thing about hackers, 'cause it's the weird thing is, is that it's not about going onto a system and like looking through the code and seeing, so I'm having some sort of Nirvana experience in this at the screen. Hacking is all about like finding flaws and exploiting flaws and finding human mistakes in systems. And sometimes it's not necessarily even anything on a computer. It's like one of the hacks, like you know the popular hacks that people do is the phishing scams, which don't involve anything but getting someone to be tricked into taking a CD or picking up a USB on a park in a

parking lot um and then the other thing is that because a lot of my friends were in Tech and some of them were hackers, that there's a subculture there that's kind of interesting, and they do feel, uh, I don't mean the generaliz, it's not all of them, but a lot of them do feel a little ostracized, and a lot of them do have a lot of social anx. Um, this was never, I mean, John Travolta does not have social anxiety in Swordfish, does he? No, I mean, he's quirky, but no, no, yeah, more of a fanboy than a nerd, yeah, yeah, and Angelina Jolie, right, and hackers will never have social anxiety, right? So anyway, that was the, it was the, again, I go back to character, the psychology of a hacker, I just never saw portrayed. This is part of what I found so striking about the show was sort of, it's all about power, power on the surface, but it's also all about kind of alienation and

loneliness and dislocation and um the sort of bizarre way in which Elliot's actually trying to he's having these people to find a forge a connection with them um. I mean maybe you could talk a little bit a little bit more about that as a kind of theme that runs through you know. I did want to talk about loneliness but I felt like the irony of this whole because I wanted to talk about loneliness in the context of today in the context of modern technology. How supposedly all these tools are there meant to connect us um but how it it actually feels like it's isolating us even more. And the one thing that the irony of the of the whole thing with Elliot is that he knows all the all these intimate details about everybody around them but he doesn't know them. And that's the trap that I think technology kind of lures us into. So if we oh you know look baby pictures and you know okay so I got my fill of Aunt you know Jenny and she's cuz I've seen her baby.

pictures, and I don't need to actually call her or talk to her, or maybe I'll just send a text Emoji. What an emoji? Yeah, my emotions will be a smiley face or whatever. I mean, you're not, I mean, and then that's it, and then it stops there, right? And what are going to be the, you know, what are the side effects of that? Um, and I remember there was a TED Talk that actually said there was some survey taken from the '60s to now where a person per square footage is actually in America, it's actually more, and we have less best friends, we would call, consider best friends. So, we're getting more lonely, and we're getting more physically more isolated, which I think has a lot to do with technology, unfortunately, because I think it gives the illusion of intimacy, and I think that's sort of the thing that we've been able to mine with Elliott and sort of the irony of his character, like do that. It does the details that you put out there, and the

personality that you put out there is that actually the same thing as knowing the person.

Sam Esmail on Computer Hacking and Loneliness | The New Yorker Festival

The New Yorker

연사는 대학 컴퓨터실에서 일하며 반항적이고 비순응적인 태도를 보였습니다.

1995년, 당시 보안이 취약했던 대학의 이메일 서버를 쉽게 해킹했습니다.

이 해킹에는 대학을 비판하는 이메일을 보내 여자 친구에게 잘 보이려는 시도가 포함되었습니다.

기술 및 해킹 하위 문화에 속한 많은 사람들이 배척당하고 사회적 불안감에 시달리고 있습니다.

존 트라볼타나 안젤리나 졸리의 캐릭터처럼 대중매체에서 해커를 묘사할 때 이러한 측면을 간과하는 경우가 많습니다.

이 드라마는 해커의 심리에 내재된 권력과 소외의 이중성을 강조합니다.

기술이 외로움과 해킹에 미치는 영향

기술이 제공하는 친밀감의 환상에도 불구하고 기술은 외로움과 사회적 고립을 증가시키는 데 기여하고 있습니다.

지난 몇 년 동안 가장 친한 친구의 수는 감소한 반면, 물리적 고립은 증가했습니다.

해킹은 시스템에서 인간의 실수를 찾아 악용하는 방식으로 이루어지며, 피싱 사기와 같이 컴퓨터 조작이 아닌 개인을 속이는 방법이 널리 사용되고 있습니다.

엘리엇은 다른 사람들과 관계를 맺으려 하지만 고립된 채로 지내면서 외로움과 고립이라는 주제가 널리 퍼져 있습니다.

우리를 연결하도록 설계된 현대 기술은 종종 더 큰 고립으로 이어집니다.

엘리엇은 타인에 대한 내밀한 정보를 알고 있기 때문에 피상적인 연결의 함정이 드러나면서 자신과 타인이 단절된 느낌을 받습니다.