Mitchel L.
The Machines are using us
- Ø You can do anything with digital text
- Ø It is unliner on paper
- Ø Are we teaching the machine or is the machine teaching us
- Ø Every time we click the mouse the machine learns
- Ø Who is the machine
In the video "The Machines are Using Us" by Michael Wesch, I thought the video was very interesting and had many fascinating facts. In the begining of the video he starts to type on a word document page and demonstrates how you can do anything with digital text. He links pages to the paper, he puts hyperlinks onto the page, and moves stuff around with the touch of a button. He also says that paper is unliner and you can’t do whatever you want with it. Last, he is going through the web and changing things as he pleases, he is also looking at a website that talks about how we are teaching the machine. As he is scrolling down the page he stops and zooms in on a sentence that talks about how many links are clicked on per day by the user. It also states that every time a page is clicked on and opens the machine learns. Last, he states that we are teaching the machine we are the machine.
