Are we digital residents or visitors?

 

A lot of artist, teachers and designers who had been passionate to Art since their childhood, understood that new technologies are able to deprive us of everything that we had loved and had been doing before AI came into our life. However, maybe IT is going to support us and to simplify some of the labor-intensive processes of our work. According to Co-Principal Investigator at Oxford University David White, nowadays population is divided into visitors and residents in digital sphere (White, 2014). Residents feel themselves absolutely free in the digital world using it for all the needs form making money, communicating to buying major and minor things all around the world. On the other side, visitors go to the Internet using it like a tool for the most necessary moments of life. We can do it for our everyday need at home or at work where we are expected to be in digital trends. This can be somewhat discouraging even for good specialists who felt themselves strongly in their working fields, but it is a fact that IT is an integral part of our life, and we have to learn how to live and work with it.

Analyzing my experience in described zones (resident or visitor at home and at work) I am making conclusion that I mostly visitor for my home needs. However, even with this baggage of skills and knowledge in IT sphere it is possible to stay in the profession, to create and teach, always thinking about further development though.