The Machine is us
Perhaps a bit cheesy, but definitely of interest, this is a video by an assistant professor of “Digital Ethnography” at Kansas State University charting the history of the web up to the present day, and being Ethnography it focuses on the social impact of recent developments. I guess the part that I found particularly interesting is the idea of the web being “trained” or “programmed” via content entry and cross-linking to represent a map and archive of human knowledge, and that in some way the web represents or reflects humanity itself. As the title says “The machine is us”
