My initial reaction to the video was "Hey, that went by too fast . . . what did they say?" What that made me realize is that when I process written information, I usually read it through once very quickly, and then I go through it a second time to really understand the content. A video format, like the one we watched that has information seemingly imbedded within another document, along with flashing text, changing text, enlarging text, disappearing text . . . with a soundtrack over the top of it . . . well, it's a lot for my brain to take in! I think the more saavy digital information public would have no trouble understanding the basic message of the video-that the "machine is us". My initial thought in the "machine is us(ing us). In other words, we are manipulated by the information instead of us manipulating the information. The source of power is key here.
This is why I accepted this 23 Things Challenge . . . to become of the mindset that we, not the machine, have the power.
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