The MInds The Web

        In the video The Machine is Us/ing Us, Michael Wesch makes the point that we are what makes up the web, the web is using us.  The web uses the ideas of every individual in the world and shares it with everyone else.  The web isn’t anything without us, we made everything on it.  It is constantly changing as we change. The web is there to share personal ideas with the world and make them known.  One personal idea shared can lead to more ideas all over.  Eventually it will lead to something no one would have been able to think of on their own.  In the last line of the video Wesch makes a fantastic statement that really made me think.  He wrote, “We’ll need to rethink a few things…copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetoric’s, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, and ourselves.” These are all ways we are linked to each other through the web.  The web can truly change who we are.  It gives everyone new ideas, even simple ones.  Ideas like how to dress, what to eat, what movie to see tomorrow, what books to read, anything and everything.  The ideas are endless when it comes to the web… and more ideas are yet to come! Without the web people wouldn’t be gaining any new ideas.  They would just have their own along with everyone else.  Nobody could add to it, or make it better.  The web is using us for each other.  People have ideas right now that are being shared, and added to… Maybe tomorrow because of the one small idea, one of the greatest inventions will be thought of.  We all have ideas that can be linked to other ideas, which can be linked to other people, which is a link to our future.