VIRTUAL AND REAL SPACES: TWO CARTOONS

Cartoon 1: Ace computers, by Harvey Schwadron
Cartoon 2: Working from home, by Mark Dubovsky

In the world of today we depend more and more of the technologies, of the internet, definetely on virtual spaces, but we can´t forgot the real world because that is our nature as human beings, because even if we pass the day in front of screens I'm sure that everyone in this planet like to see pictures of landscapes or of animals so How far is the boundary between real and virtual spaces becoming increasingly blurred nowadays ?

Cartoon 1: On this cartoon we can see a man walking on the street he might be going working we could suppose because he has a binder. At the back we can see a car which could make us think that we are in a city. Behind the car we see buildings and the sun so we know we are in the day. At the left side of the cartoon we can see a store, probably a store of computers in which they give an alternative to normal tourism : The eco-tourism.

When we think about tourism we do not think about pollution, but despite that the 8% of greenhouses gases emited in the world are due to tourism, is ot the fact of the tourism what contaminate, but all the movements implied in it, like for example the taxi that take us to the airport, the airplane and then all the transports we take once we are in our destination, The eco-tourism would reduce greenhouse gases an 8% per year what would be so great. But there could be other alternative that not implie to be infront of a screen. Also, is not the same to be somewhere than see it.

To put it in a nutshell, I will say that  here the boundary beetween real spaces and virtual spaces is very close because thanks to a virtual space like internet we would travel all around the world, or anywhere we want, but the screen does not allowe you to smell thinks or savor local food which is very interesting when we travel.

Cartoon 2 : In this cartoon we can clearly see two work stations that should be occupated by two persons, if not why put chairs ? On the two screens we see the respective faces of the workers, the one of the left asks to his workmate if he's going to go to the work today and the other one answers that he's going to work from home, both of them have sad faces.

The main thing that needs to be said is that the workers have sad faces because they want see the other one and work insame, maybe before they worked insame and now they must work from home.

In short we can conclude that the link the cartoon has with the key issue is the fact of working insame to another person from home, the boundary between the real and the virtual is again as in the Cartoon 1, the screen. We can see this situation today with the coronavirus which obligate a lot of people to work from homa.