Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Machines Are Using Us - Paragraph

In the video, Machines are Using Us, by Michael Wesch, its talked about how electronics are taking over our lives and controlling what we do, not only in the present but in the future as well. The video shows us how electronics have advanced. How paper and pencil became digital; how one web page is clicked on 100 billion times a day; and how we are technology and how we are technology. In the video it shows us how many things we can do in one simple click of the mouse or a simple push of a button. Html codes are behind everything and there are simple codes like < i > for italics, < u > for underlining, < b > for bold. In the world human minds are advancing forward which means technology is. Now it’s just the matter of if we are technology or if technology is using us. Or maybe we are the technology just using eachother.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Machines Are Using Us - Notes

Notes:


  • A Youtube Video.

  • Director: Micheal Wesch

  • it's not just text

  • We are the internet

  • Is the machine using us or are we the machines?

  • one button click and we can go anywhere

  • we can change web pages by a code

  • Form and content can be serperate

  • With form and content serperated people don't need to know the code to upload things.

  • People are creating the machines

  • the machine is using us

  • the machine is us

  • We'll need to rethink some things.

  • rethink ourselves.

Words:


  • Smart

  • New

  • Old

  • problematic

  • technology

  • right

  • wrong

  • us

  • useful

  • job

  • Scary

  • wierd

  • different perspective






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