I was glued to the screen as I watched this clip. We always are connected to the web but rarely think about it using us. I use it pretty much everyday, from research, to communicating. In the beginning, the clip shows various ways we use the web but the twist is, in the end it's about how the "machine" uses us. How the "machine" can keep tabs on my likes, and find a pattern in my life by my frequent visits to certain information.
The basic idea of the video is that before, data was organized in a "stupid" way. HTML would only describe things such as how a text should be coloured, what's the size of the picture on a web page and so on..
With XML, we are describing the 'meaning' of the content. When i.e. you tag something, you aren't telling about its colour or shape, you're teaching an idea. What Professor Wesch wants to point is that there are huge ethics going on with this. There's a terrible "big brother" going on...
With XML, we are describing the 'meaning' of the content. When i.e. you tag something, you aren't telling about its colour or shape, you're teaching an idea. What Professor Wesch wants to point is that there are huge ethics going on with this. There's a terrible "big brother" going on...
I LOVED this video. I think it was created beautifully, and extremely clever. Very thought provoking and timely - this needs to be thought through as things are happening so quickly. I agree the old corporations are on the way out - history is being made and our futures are being reshaped in an extraordinary way. Even we cannot predict how different things will become.
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