The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- "Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes.
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This is a slightly revised and cleaned up version of the video that was featured on UA-cam 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):
www.mediafire.c...
Quicktime File (96 MB):
www.mediafire.c...
Mojiti Version (for comments, translations, etc.):
mojiti.com/kan/...
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.
The fact this video is made 16 years ago is incredible. We live these problems today.
This was such a profound video back then... and still hits today, but with more understanding of just what we were in for... and what is still to come. It's listening to that song "Everybody's free to wear sunscreen" again today.
Hello from 2021. Although this video was posted in 2007 (13 years ago!), it's still very relevant today, which is mindblowing, considering how fast the web changes.
I remember when this was current and still point to it. Would love to hear your take on how it has progressed, how it has impacted society and what has surprised you and what hasn't.
I was just gonna post the same comment, I've always loved this video, but it would be amazing to have a new updated one.
I'd love this too! I still found my comment saying "I won't sleep tonight" which I type almost 14 years ago. I'm very intrigued about what he thinks now.
@@KaosKitbashing Yeah, I'm mostly depressed about it. The result these days turned out to be pretty anticlimactic.
Can't believe I'm at the age where I can click on an old video and see "10+ years ago." I remember when this video was fresh.
This is my all-time favorite UA-cam vid. When I first saw it years ago I saw that movies were becoming an art form of the past.
Oh my gosh, may I just say? Your editing skills are amazing sir! This video was captivating!
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
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen. This is not just full of information in compressed, easy to understand way, but also professionally produced, inspiring and motivating peace of art.
This really is brilliant...I've saved it to my "Learning Resources" file for when I teach. Thank you so much for your dedication! I just can't get enough of it :)
Wow, 10 years just passed from the release of this epic video. :)
After watching it a few times, I must admit that this video is a bit more cleaned up than the previous version. Wasn't sure which was better at first. Very well done.
I have been showing this video as part of a series of meetings with Chief Information Security Officers on the topic of Web 2.0 Security. It has been amazingly well received and impactful. It helps them quickly understand the impact Web 2.0 will have on their roles protecting information within their corporations. Well Done!
i just took a time machine back to 2007 when everything in this video was new and i was coding my myspace page to play a song no one could pause
I love the ending.
It all comes together very well, and the way you edited the text you had already typed was brilliant and perfectly thought out.
This must have been made by a really exceptional teacher--because besides being informative on both practical and conceptual levels, it inspires me. It makes the material fascinating and fills me with more questions to pursue.
How does this not have a million "Likes"?
This video discusses the role of digital text and its potentialities. Unlike writing on paper text, digital text becomes something more flexible, changeable, which can promote a world of possibilities and where the hypertext brings the possibility of sharing, of a collaborative construction and of co-creation.
Where through a click an individual text is replaced by the collective and allows that the content and the format itself could be the subject of a review by a third party, who in replace can comment, question, share, enhance and change it.
Turns out to be the possibility for each of us to project something about yourself into the virtual environment and to make your mark in the virtual world.
Hypertext ultimately promote the globalization of ideas, content, knowledge, once it can be accessed without restrictions, both geographic and temporal, being stored in the ocean of the information present on the internet.
(by Claúdio Pinto, Diana Morais, e Sónia Heideman)
Just when I thought there wasn't anything worth watching on UA-cam, I find this.
Excellent! Thanks very much for sharing it with us.
Excellent work! My student in a social media course recently reminded me this is available, so we will show the video at the start of class next week. Thank you for making the download available. This is first rate material.
Dr. West, you are to be complimented. You're making Ethnology revelant and exciting to your students. You're involving them. And, from your Intro video, they seem excited. 5 stars
I have checked every day for the final release. Now that I saw it, wow. YOu really sharpened it, especially with the anthropology blog section. Just incredible!
Excellent video - shared by my instructor in MDDE 610W2015 at Athabasca University as part of our unit on Web 2.0. Thanks very much - really enjoyed it.
Watching this one again. Still a classic.
i am currently doing an assignment and came across this video.
i must say that it sparked a motivation in my thinking in regards to how we should approach creating content for the web!
Well done to you for making such a motivational and educational video!
hat off to you!
This video made me start my journey as a software developer. I watched it when it came out!
This video is amazing. Its informative, interesting, simple, innovativly presented, and brings up a great number of important ideas! Love it.
This video is absolutely amazing. I could watch it over and over and still be in awe of how much things have changed
You got a lil bit of emotion outta me on the part where Web 2.0 is linking people. Amazing yet again!
Just read the more info section. I'd just like to add that the soundtrack to this video is awesome - it truly stirs me emotionally and ties in with the optimism and potential of the 'web 2.0' attitude.
props to the man makin the music..its got an old nintendo feel to it. cool video guys
Im sitting here, watching this video.
Again and again, and I am just speechless.
The presentation and all of it, the thoughts and ideas and stimulation of our own imagination and curiousity... its quite incredible
Thank you. Thank you for sharing this.
Whoa. Mind. BLOWN. It's so hard to see this stuff in the day-to-day of our lives. In summaries, look-backs, etc. we can see truly how transformative Web 2.0 has been to...everything. I'm sharing this!
I think this video summaries a lot of ideas. The activities that were reflected were tremendous. However , they were shown in a seemingly simple visual method.
Good job!
absolutely brilliant, beautifully put together and will thought out. the best Vid on Web 2.0 that I've seen so far.
This is one of the best informative video on youtube. Great work!!!!!
That's one of the best videos I've ever seen at UA-cam. It's not just some funny crap... unfortunatelly, there are still some people who thinks "bullshit".
It is the good side of it all... really good!
This is an eye-opener. Great presentation of the concept. We need to rethink a few things indeed.
Fantastic points here, Professor. We are using this video in our online INF course at Ashford. Thank you for the inspiration and information on "The Machine".
What a cool way to share info! Good luck on your future projects.
I love this video. By far, one of the best videos I've seen on the internet since the inception of video portals such as youtube.
i saw this video the tenth time and it's still fantastic there's so much to think about it, really great work! Thanks!
Absolutely superb. Everyone who has any interest in the future of IT and the impact the web will have on us should watch this.
And a perfect example of the medium IS the message.
I only just discovered this video, and that too through your talk at the Library of Congress. Loved that, and love this.
this is possibly one of the best user documentaries on the evolution of web and web 2.0. It's both awe inspiring and terrifying because once we've created a machine, what do we do when it wants more or what do we do when we want more and demand more from our simple machinery or even from our complex machines.
I just showed this to my Media History college class, who were children when it was released 10yrs ago. It had a huge impact. I remember very well when I first saw it and how engaged and optimistic we were by the notion of 'Web 2.0' (Time magazine's person of the year in 2006 was 'You'). And yet today, we seem to have lost the fascination in the transformation of communications; how they work and have changed us and the ongoing impact on our lives. After watching this, it was like my student's suddenly saw the timeline and how we've arrived at the point where we are, with eyes permanently glued to our devices. This video is still as pertinent as ever, perhaps even more so 10 years on...
Excellent video. I use it often to explain web 2.0 to people and even beyond that what it can become. It's up to us.
I have been studying the telematic embrace for a while now, that was fantastic. Loved the comparison of the linear hand written text at the start. analogue and digital important from a dromological view, totally relevant in some concepts of web 2.0. Loved the style of this video, great way of presenting it to the people. :)
brilliant video...
it is striking when you think about how much the internet is influencing us, and how even more so in the future
Brilliant this is absolute brilliance!
Made me think about this for awhile.
This video and concept is truly inspiring!
Jumped to this link from EDC class (being taught out of Univ. Edinburg): i agree, it is a simple but powerfully effective production with intelligent construct. Loved it! Bravo bravo...more please.
Thanks for the overview of 2.0....I see how we are becoming the web!
I assigned this video to my 8th grade computer class in 2007. It blew my mind.
...have sent this video to everyone i know...LOVE...LOVE...LOVE the visionary aspect unfolding within it.
I'm currently revising for a media studies module on new media and user generated content. This was incredibly useful, thank you!
This is fantastic. Thank you for making it. I was thoroughly enlightened.
No matter how many times I watch this video it never ceases to amaze...
One of the most throughprovoking and interesting videos and proof of the very concept of user-created culture which completely removes the conceptual idea that artists will only create if they are provided with an economic reason to do so.
i love the ending.
added this to my favourites, it really gets you thinking..
This guy communicates a complicated message with ease
Best regards
Interesting piece of history. Greats presentation. I’m sire we all wanna see an updated 3.0 version
your videos make me think. and i like that. thank you for posting something worthwhile.
This video is part of the Open University Module I have studied for my degree in ICT. Very clever video and considered an academic piece of work.. well done.
Excellent. It really puts things in perspective. BTW, thnx 4 the download link. I've got this on my Sansa and am showing it to everybody. Keep up the good work.
I want to devote a chapter of my book to describing the concepts you explained so visually here!
incredible.
Congratulations from Chile/the web
That was well-presented. Makes me want to take a class with you. You do a very nice job presenting real problems that we are going to have to confront within our lifetime.
Superbly done.
A brilliant piece of work! I train non profit organizations in Alberta how to use social media. I always play this video towards the beginning of the workshop so they have a sense of where things are going in terms of online communications and why.
this video makes me nostalgic for 2007 internet.
Wow, this video is incredible. Even 10 years later, and its message is still highly applicable to our day and time, even after so much has changed with how the internet is arranged. It's amazing how much he predicted it would change things too... and it's still changing. Well done, Wesch!
Yet another Click viewer, just had to watch it, and glad I did, it's an excellent and thoughtful video - well done!
A fundamental piece. This will be a classic.
Thank you for creating it.
Thanks for sharing Professor Wesch, love the video. Muchas gracias.
¡Espectacular presentación! No existe mejor manera de demostrar tooooooodas las ventajas de la Web 2.0 y cómo aprovecharlas de un solo vistazo, tan vertiginoso como puede ser acceder a ellas, sin dejar de invitarnos a la reflexión para su uso adecuado y sobre todo ético!
you are so right, and this video is so artistic and beautiful
Whoa...that was awesome!
i loved it dude it was very well put together
Absolutely fantastic. I think it's great!
I like how the author created this video and the way it explained things, awesome.
we need to rethink stuff like this... 5/5 man, this is deep
Correction, the music is "There's Nothing Impossible" by Deus. It is NOT available on iTunes! Search for it in UA-cam, and you can download it directly from there.
P.S.> Inspirational and overall amazing video!
I have seen this movie before I started my undergrad degree in Anthropology. Back then, I thought this was very interesting, but now that I am almost done with my undergrad, I feel even more compelled and drawn to the topics and ideas presented here.
Thanks for making such a brilliant video. (=
absolutely stunning, intellectual video
As someone who is learning Software Development Technologies, I found this VERY interesting! Great job!
This video is older than me but still fascinating.
Blown away man. Freaking blown away.
Reading this in 2023 and seeing how this links to AI is insane. Since almost all AIs are trained, if not fully, at least partially, from the web.
We are teaching the machine
Now, people are using the machine to teach themselves
@@reda-w4gwe went full circle
great video. makes you think of whats to come.
I love this presentation. What a great introduction to a necessary conversation. Thank you.
Super - what a concept - never thought this was a possibility :)
You have put into words what I have long thought about the "magic" of the internet, while noting the "imitation of participation," yet I didn't know how to put it into words! Life is changing drastically for those of us that have this "luxury." "Beam me up, Scotty," is the last frontier.
This gave me chillls man. I'm publishing my first website and it's been a long and windy road. I would like to link this to my site and use it to show how the Internet has infiltrated our culture.
Great work!!
We need to discuss these things. That's what my site is all about.
-DMT
Enjoyed watching this.
On 1) Copyright 2) Authorship 3) Identity 4) Ethics & 7) Governance - there are some reflections in the Convention on Knowledge Commons: an initial draft)
If content producers would apply some collective content linking and structuring standards, then again: Us us/ing (is) Machine (the)
Excellent video! This is one of the true roles of academia: raising issues for discussion ahead of their serious arrival in the community. Well done Prof. Wesch; I hope it hasn't messed up your chances of tenure!
This is a very thought-provoking video. I enjoyed watching this, the semantics that went into the product. The thought that the developer of this video put into this is very intelligent. I enjoyed this video very much. And its very informative. Very scary at the same time, too.
Incredible. Very very well done. Kudos to you!
WOW that was art and... digital choreography for sure. I am a web professional and i just learned something more from this - a true visualization of the web today and tomorrow...
Great job = Thank you so much!
I never realized that separating form and content allowed user-accessible content creation before... this is pretty good. And for all the people who're wondering about XML, it's just a metaformat. Look into XHTML + CSS for concrete examples of how style and content are separated.
that editing is awesome, great job
relevant, well-made & inspired video! thanks for schooling us