Within our society, the idea of situation and spectacle has been a phenomenon. It has slowly consumed our society to the point where we don’t even notice it anymore. In Debord’s reading, “The society of the Spectacle”, he states “The spectacle, understood in its totality, is simultaneously the result and the project of the existing mode of production. It is not a supplement to the real world, its added decoration.” Taking phones as an example, its understood that its main purpose is communication, but society has taken the concept of a phone to the extent that its a device that takes time from you and it’s a “decoration” for a person. Debord emphasizes heabily in his readings about how the idea of spectacle has consumed our society in a way that it became the “heart” of our society. Although, comparing a situation and a spectacle, a situation is understandable a collection of spectacles.

In Lucy Suchman’s reading, “Plans and Situated Actions”, she discusses the idea of human-computer interaction. “That is to say, machine operation becomes less a matter of pushing buttons or pulling levers with some physical result, and more a matter of specifying operations and assessing their effects through the use of a common language.” The advancement in technology has allowed humans to interact with their machines utilizing common language, and machines responding back with common language. These complexities within the machines can be beneficial to our society and yet very destructive. It has come to the point where humans rely so heavily on the interactions with the machines/computers, that they have become engulfed into them, similar to how a spectacle would.