Unten maille tietokone kainalossa

unimuistot ja tietotekniikan arkipäiväistyminen

Authors

• Petri Saarikoski

Abstract

Dream Machines: Stories of Dreaming and Domestication of Information Technology

Information technology clearly affects our dreams, and these experiences can produce very emotional dream memories. Negative side effects of computer usage have been studied widely, but so far, very little research has been done from the point of view of cultural history of information technology and dreams. The article examines what kind of experiences and emotions can be found in recollections of computer related dreams, and why. The main source of data consists of the results of an inquiry executed during 2002–2003. The study of the data shows that dream stories can be regarded as a part of a person’s ‘computer biography’, and thus, they form an interesting source for the history of information technology in Finland before the emergence of social media.