Others, such as Southerners, are afraid of sounding like hicks, so they revert to transforming their southern accent into a better accent, most of the time an American one. Hawking’s opinions are parallel to two tensions in modern identity of enhancement technology; tension between natural and artificial, and tension between self and self-presentation. An example of the first tension is a computer-generated voice that makes one feel more like themselves and feel better about themselves, just like steroids. Tension between self and self-presentation is tension between the self from the inside and the self as it is presented to others. There is a gap between the two, but Hawking closes the gap by identifying with the American accent and not wanting to go back to his original British accent, if he had a choice. Elliot explains further by saying that an accent is what’s presented to others, not the self as it feels in the inside. Elliot explains the connection between voice and identity by saying, “My voice is always distinctly my voice, but often I will not think of it as such until someone
Others, such as Southerners, are afraid of sounding like hicks, so they revert to transforming their southern accent into a better accent, most of the time an American one. Hawking’s opinions are parallel to two tensions in modern identity of enhancement technology; tension between natural and artificial, and tension between self and self-presentation. An example of the first tension is a computer-generated voice that makes one feel more like themselves and feel better about themselves, just like steroids. Tension between self and self-presentation is tension between the self from the inside and the self as it is presented to others. There is a gap between the two, but Hawking closes the gap by identifying with the American accent and not wanting to go back to his original British accent, if he had a choice. Elliot explains further by saying that an accent is what’s presented to others, not the self as it feels in the inside. Elliot explains the connection between voice and identity by saying, “My voice is always distinctly my voice, but often I will not think of it as such until someone