The Form of Man

YouTube: Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

By Michael Wesch
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Kansas State University

Highlights:

Form and content can be separated.
XML facilitates automated data exchange.
We Are the Web
The machine is us.
The Web is linking people.

We'll need to rethink a few things ... copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves.