The Machine Is Us

[Darren Dirt]

VERY COOL video, essentially celebrating the finally-truly interactive state of the Web today...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

apparently a response to this.


"The Web is linking people..."

[Darren Dirt]

A "video response" to the above mentions something the ORIGINAL visiCalc spreadsheet programmer has recently come up with...

wikiCalc. Neat.

The time we are living in now is neat.

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The internet still follows the fundamental form of the written word and the motion picture: non-participatory reception of information.

The internet is essentially a series of Guttenberg presses and Edison kinetiscopes connected by telegraph wire.

...the real achievement of the internet has been to SIMULATE participation.
It has made non-participatory addition of responsive content more rapid ... even instantaneous.

This is a movement towards making the non-participatory form imitate the participatory reality.

-CoryTheRaven, in a video response to "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us"

(apparently "The full text can be found on Michael Wesch's blog" ; see also http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?page_id=2 , http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=77 for discussion more info. etc.)

[Tom]

That original one there was quite nice. The tutorial one was painful