The Machine is Us/ing Us?

Yah....kembali lagi deh nge-blogging.....
padahal dlu dah pernah, ntah knapa gw tutup blognya karena ngga banget...wakakakaka...
semoga blog yg ini akan tahan lama....

Oh ya, ini blog gw bkan tempat curhat ye....
dsini bakal gw sharing tiap hari informasi yg gw dapet dr berbagai sumber......
hehehe......

Oh ya, my 1st post on my new blog....
back to the Title of my blog, the technology, the machine.......
We all know that we keep advancing our current technology, it will never ends.

But, if we keep doing this, what will happen to us?
I use Web 2.0 for the example

Currently, we are using Web 2.0 to browse other site, make a blog, upload videos on youtube and many else.....
Most early websites were written in HTML.
HTML was designed to define the structure of a web document.
There's many structural element on html, such as p for paragraph....
As HTML expanded, more elements were added, even stylistic elements such as b for bold....

Such elements defined how the content would be formatted.
In other words, forms and content became inseperable in HTML

But Digital Text is better, form and content is seperable.
XML was designed to do just like that.
title does not define the form, it defines the content, same with link and description
and virtually all other elements on XML, they define the content, not the form.
So the data can be exported, free of formatting constraints.

With form seperated from the content, users did not need to know complicated code to upload content to the web.

Just like this blog, when we're making this blog, it's easy right?
Just make an account, decide your blog's name and etc.
And it's not just text....
Videos....
Pictures....and many else.

XML facilitates automated data exchange.
2 sites can "mash" data together.

Who will organize all of this data?
We will....
no....
You will....

XML + U & Me create a database-backed web....
a database-backed web is different...
The Web is different.....
We are the web.....

When we post, and then tag pictures, We are teaching The Machine...
Each time we forge a link, We teach it an idea....
Think of the 100 billion times per day humans click on a Web page....

The machine, the technology we are advancing, is it us? or using us?

Digital text is no longer just linking information...no....the Hypertext....
The Web is no longer just linking information....it's linking people....
Web 2.0 is linking people.....
People sharing, trading, collaborating......

But we'll need to rethink a few things....
Copyright....
Authorship...
Identity...
Ethics....
Aesthetics...
Rhetorics...
Governance...
Privacy...
Commerce...
Love...
Family....
Ourselves.....

source : youtube, a video by a Kansas State University Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology....Michael Wesch....