I guess I’m late to the blog-party on this one, so you may already have seen it. But this video is a fantastic backgrounder on much of how we see the world of data and information at disruptorMonkey.
The video was created by Michael Wesch, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. You can find his spot on the web here.
He also created the excellent "The Machine is Us/ing Us" which you can see here, along with a bunch of other thought provoking videos about the impact of information on our lives.
One of Prof. Wesch’s other videos has a great quote by Marshall McLuhan from 1967:
"Today’s child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns, subjects and schedules."
1967!!! And look at us now.
Thanks to Zack for the heads up — I’m behind on my blog reading and had not seen this yet.
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Did you know your blog theme cuts off the side of the video? Compare it on the blog versus on youtube proper. It’s very evident at the very first shot of the typewriter.
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Did you know your blog theme cuts off the side of the video? Compare it on the blog versus on youtube proper. It’s very evident at the very first shot of the typewriter.
Yeah… It’s been on my to-do list for a while. Should be fixed now…
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