Wednesday, February 21, 2007

The Best of Web 2.0

name: Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
type: science and technology video
dur.: 4 min31 sec
from: mwesch
link: WATCH HERE

Although it is posted under sci-tech category, it's more like a commercial for Web2.0 (rather than a sci-tech movie). So what is Web2.0? It is the same old internet but faster and wider. Just like an old road which became wider, with less holes and more street lights and road signs. Will it evolve into high-way? I doubt it. Particulary because of some things that we need "to rethink". Such as privacy.
Would you appreciate going into some pub where a waiter, an owner, or some "third parties" are spying on you: listen to your conversation, checking out what you usually drink and do, so they could provide a better service?

I know I wouldn't.

Maybe that is the point of this video: the (people in the) machine is using us.
It is worth thinkining about.

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