Our Web

          The video the machine is us/ing us, by Michael Wesch starts out about how we use the web now. Then it ends on how the web will be different in the future is up to us. When I saw this, I was board and heard this all too many times before. From what I see though he makes a good point; the web will be different in the future and my generation should have a good working knowledge about the web, because we have to take on the responsibility.  

      In the beginning he talks about how digital text is better than written text. This is all true because it’s a lot easier to revise and edit a paper by just using the delete button than an eraser, and we all know this but older generations are acting like it is so hard and we need to be prepared. In a way they don't understand how easy it is for us to figure all this out because we have been around the web our whole entire lives and we don’t know what life would be like without the web. But who really knows for us, none of us teens have worked for say Google or Facebook. I understand why some of the prior generations are worried because they think we won't be prepared and we will put the United Stated in a big information hole and won't be able to get out; they may not be able to give us all the answers we ask, but we can get their advice and use it to our advantage to figure things out ourselves. We will find our own way of life and set a path for our future, and if we are not fully ready to take on this responsibility then who is? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1