Friday, October 12, 2012

The Machine is Us/ing us


In the video “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing us” by Michael Wesch  we’re shows how the world is changing, we are teaching it how to learn and to be us, but without us its nothing.  The Internet gives us an opportunity to change, edit, and delete information. Each keystroke teaches the machine.   The things we work on with the machine have the potential to generate ideas. An internet search is an example of how distinct words merge to create new ideas and improvements. The web has grown and rather than just linking us to information it links us to each other. These links are moments of brainpower, lead  to discoveries, and ultimately to a better functioning society.  We the people are making a machine, but without us there is no machine to make.

Michael Wesch’s video highlights a relationship between the machine and the user is a natural necessary part of modern day creativity. In today’s world students heavily rely on technology which in turn feeds the machine. We use the machine for simple tasks and potentially could loose the ability to do these simple tasks without the machine.  A state of dependency would result in making us weaker.  The machine that makes us strong could in the end make us weak.