Today’s digital technologies make a vital impact on our ways of being together by shaping the distance between people, transforming modes of communication among different countries, creating new opportunities to stay ‘in touch’ with others. However, these technological benefits become possible only when humans know how to be ‘together’ with technology in the first place.
From the very outset, our being together with technologies includes our bodies. In such a way, ‘human-technology’ relations are first and foremost bodily and tactile. Moreover, every usage of technology – although it is a simple tool like a hammer or a complex technological artifact like a smartphone – needs training. In such a way, usage of technology regularly includes a learning component. To get real benefits from transformations that digital technology brings into play users have to ‘reshape’ his/her behavior due to the requirements of the technology in question. This reshaping of behavior usually involves all the spectrum of bodily/cognitive abilities and bags for various training strategies. The phenomenological approach might help to conceptualize and clarify the real impact that digital technologies have on our experience.