The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)

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mwesch | March 08, 2007

"Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes. http://mediatedcultures.net Thi...

mwesch | March 08, 2007

"Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes.
http://mediatedcultures.net

This is a slightly revised and cleaned up version of the video that was featured on YouTube in February 2007.

I considered releasing it as an "eternal beta" in true Web 2.0 style, but decided to let it stand as is and start working on future projects. Many of my future videos will address the last 30 seconds of this video (the "rethink ..." part).

Thank you all for the helpful comments on the earlier draft. It has been a great experience to connect with so many people interested in
similar issues.

Once again, there are higher quality versions available for download:

Windows Media File (55 MB):
http://www.mediafire.com/?2wnmpy2ibz1

Quicktime File (96 MB):
http://www.mediafire.com/?axhbjnmw4yn

Mojiti Version (for comments, translations, etc.):
http://mojiti.com/kan/2743/5984

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. So you are welcome to download it, share it, even change it, just as long as you give me some credit and you don't sell it or use it to sell anything. I received many more positive comments than negative about the song choice (great work Deus!), but if you are one of those who does not like the song just download the video and change the audio track to your liking.

The video was created by me (Michael Wesch), working alone from my house in St. George, Kansas. I used CamStudio for the screen captures and Sony Vegas for the panning/cropping/zooming animations. Someday I might make a video tutorial for those who are interested.

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  • Man that was amazing, The combination of music, the graphic content and the original way of showing us your writing simply captivated me and wouldn't release me untill I had seen it all.

    The machine is using us, we are using the machine. We are the machine

  • Nice, what a pity that the machine will be expert in posting bullshit, flaming and downloading porn ;-))) (Since it learns from us)

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  • great video :D

  • Text isn't really unilinear. Books, for instance, were invented so that a person could flip from one section to another -- the liturgical requirement was that one had to read from several portions of a text during a church ritual, and all of the parts had to be accessible. Otherwise, wonderful vid --

  • Why even mention HTML being used for formatting? It was a bad idea, and has not been done since CSS was invented over a decade ago. Your bringing it up confuses the issue and the point you are trying to make. HTML is for marking up structure and XML for marking up content - and the two have merged into XHTML which is what most new websites are written in

  • Why even mention HTML being used for formatting? It was a bad idea, and has not been done since CSS was invented over a decade ago. Your bringing it up confuses the issue and the point you are trying to make. HTML is for marking up structure and XML for marking up content - and the two have merged into XHTML which is what most new websites are written in

  • Just watched this video as party of my RMIT university Web2.0 adventure

  • This is an amazing video. These are things that i constantly ponder upon an try to share with others but no one ever has the intellect to understand. I am glad to know there is a person like you out there trying your best to put this information out. please continue.

  • Amazing!

  • Scary when you really think about it. Thumbs up! This was a very smart thing to show everybody...thanks for this!!

  • The machine is creating links more complex than what an animal mind can encompass, but it is not learning. Learning requires the ability to free oneself from its creator by recreating oneself, something we have not allowed any machine to do.

    Both machines and animals are causal, but animals can recreate their history at will, although the sheep among them would rather believe they cannot.

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