Sunday, August 7, 2011

Response to Dr. Wesch's video " The machine is us/ing us"

Whiles watching this video my eyes were opened up to alot of things I had never really seen before. Some were obvious and some not so much. I was aware of the fact that digital text is much easier and extensible than written text. This is because we rely on the machine and we rely on the machine because we have thought it the things it knows. Every click we make the machine memorizes that click forever, by doing that the machine has just learnt something new, something we have taught it. So in a way that is what Wesch means when he says " The machine is us/ing us". The machine is using us to learn.
We are now the web because we have thought the computer ideas and tasks with our very own ideas. The web is now made up of our ideas. We can easily create and link whatever it is we want, simply because form and content are separate.

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