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Web 2.0: The Machine is Using Us and Vice-Versa

Posted on Feb 20th, 2007 by ~C4Chaos : (hyper)linker ~C4Chaos

(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com)

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
This amazing video has already reached the vast expanse of cyberspace. While people are still debating the definition of Web 2.0, this video captured its essence in just five minutes. Ahh, the power of moving pictures. Check it out if you still haven't seen it.

And here's an interview with the creator of that wonderful video via John Battelle:

"How did you end up making such a compelling video, one that resonates so deeply with folks like, well, those who read Searchblog?"


"For me, cultural anthropology is a continuous exercise in expanding my mind and my empathy, building primarily from one simple principle: everything is connected. This is true on many levels. First, everything including the environment, technology, economy, social structure, politics, religion, art and more are all interconnected. As I tried to illustrate in the video, this means that a change in one area (such as the way we communicate) can have a profound effect on everything else, including family, love, and our sense of being itself. Second, everything is connected throughout all time, and so as anthropologists we take a very broad view of human history, looking thousands or even millions of years into the past and into the future as well. And finally, all people on the planet are connected. This has always been true environmentally because we share the same planet. Today it is even more true with increasing economic and media globalization."

Very fluffy! Read more.

Maybe someone can do a similar video on YouTube to explain the essence of "social media" instead of just debating over it.

Speaking of YouTube videos, violence seems to be ok, but boobs ain't. Ah, well.
Access_public Access: Public 3 Comments Print views (527)  
martha : wildlygentle
about 4 hours later
martha said

This is an awesome video!  Thank you!

Julian : integral healer
about 20 hours later
Julian said

absolutely beautiful - thanks c!

Photizo : A Livingstone
3 days later
Photizo said

Here's another perspective of Web 2.0

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