Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Response to Michael Wesch's Video "The Machine is Us/ing Us"

This video has shown me how the written word has progressed in time, from writing with a pen or pencil to typewriters and from typewriters to digital text. Digital text can be used to upload, download, and share information which allows the whole world to access these information anywhere at anytime. Like it is stated in the video, "every time we post and then upload a picture we teach the machine and each time we forge a link we teach it an idea." Then the video displays a excerpt that states, "Think of the 100 billion times per day click on a Web page..." This shows what we humans do not realize, that the machine is us, we are using the machine. We are the machine.

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