Where is the boundary between your phone and your mind?

Here’s a thought experiment: where do you end? Not your body, but you, the nebulous identity you think of as your ‘self’. Does it end at the limits of your physical form? Or does it include your voice, which can now be heard as far as outer space; your personal and behavioral data, which is spread out across the impossibly broad plane known as digital space; and your active online personas, which probably encompass dozens of different social media networks, text message conversations, and email exchanges?

I have worked in the field of UX for almost a decade, carefully planning and crafting digital experiences in the hope that people would engage with them. I find it startling and terrifying to think that digital platforms are so tightly interwoven with our physical and mental selves that they have become an integral, if not defining, part of our personalities. I found this article to be a fascinating exploration of how the digital platforms and cyberspace are beginning to engulf us all.