The screens are inevitable.

We used to be surrounded by them at our leisure and work or study. We love them because they make our lives easier: they are able to approach so far, either immediately or with some delay, and give us what we want: information and connection with others.

Through these flat rectangular surfaces, as Lev Manovich call them in his paper “The Screen and the User” we have increasing control of time and space. We have to talk to a particular person to get information, meet with our executive bank to withdraw money, move to a place to do a procedure, travel to another country to see our family. The solution is a few clicks ... or touch, if you prefer.

Show us what our eyes cannot see in reality, such as scans. For expectant parents, the first visual contact they have with their children is from 7 weeks of pregnancy, with the first ultrasound. A black and white display is capable of displaying a small living in the womb and even can hear the heartbeat. Live life.

Allow us to enter worlds of fiction. We can choose between watching a movie on a traditional film or 3D image and feeling that surrounds us in different degrees. We can go further and experiment with virtual reality.
The display disappears and the physical reality and immerse ourselves in the reality created.
In both cases, the screen plays on the body. The reference is always to in the real world and not vice versa. In my opinion, our lives can be surrounded by screens, but it will not be determined by the technologies. We have a long road ahead and is likely that the screens become increasingly invisible, either because we used to it, by its appearance or size, but we, as humans, are not going to change.