“No-Life”, a new alien in our society

For a few years, and since the democratization of the Internet and of online video games, a new race apeared in our modern society. And this time, it is not a new heroe, a new golden boy or a new genius. I would rather talk about a new stranger and lauthing stock. The “No-Life”, that online video games addicted, that boy who can plays in front of his screen more than fifteen hours a day, and who progressivly lose his social life, clearly seems to be the new specimen to study for the Media. Thus, a lot of documentaries were filmed on “No-Lifes”, always with the parents point of view: with terror and lack of understanding, as if game addiction was a new virus that would increasingly hit boys of all families.

However, the Media is not the only one to focus on the “No-Life”. Around the “No-Life” himeself, the youngs also consider that boy as the new one to make fun of. There was the first of the class, or the spotty, no there is the “No-Life”. Clément for example, who appeared in a famous documentary on the “No-Life” style, has become one the most mocked boy of the French web, and a lot of parodies of the documentaries were made as we can see: 

From cyber criminality to cyber war?

For a few month, conflits in the world seem to have reach a new dimension. Attacks are nowaday not just comited with weapons and missils, but also with computers and Internet. During the war between Lebanon and Israel for example, the israelian army used hackers to hit the Hezbollah numerical structures, and anti-war hackers did the same against Israelian’s system.  

Here is a new stategic fact we will have to consider for every war coming. The cyber attacks can even become the war itself, when no other weapons are used. As when Russia attacked Estonia last year, hiting the websites of two banks, of few newspapers, and of some important ministeries, because Estonia decided do remove a Russian statue from its capital Tallin. Of course, Estonia decided to counter attack, and used also cyber pirate to hit Russian websites.

That new kind of conflict, and the avenment of the “cyber soldier” is significant, and bring a lot of new questions. Is that evolution fair, and will a war without blood replace the violent conflicts we use to know? Or will that new strategy become only a an additional weapon, and a new way for the civilians to be hit by States conflicts?