The Machine is Us/ing Us

La vidéo qui parle autrement du web2.0, et qui a récemment marqué les esprit.

Une interview de l’auteur, Michael Wesch professeur d’anthropologie culturelle.

For me, cultural anthropology is a continuous exercise in expanding my
mind and my empathy, building primarily from one simple principle:
everything is connected. This is true on many levels. First, everything
including the environment, technology, economy, social structure,
politics, religion, art and more are all interconnected. As I tried to
illustrate in the video, this means that a change in one area (such as
the way we communicate) can have a profound effect on everything else,
including family, love, and our sense of being itself. Second,
everything is connected throughout all time, and so as anthropologists
we take a very broad view of human history, looking thousands or even
millions of years into the past and into the future as well. And
finally, all people on the planet are connected. This has always been
true environmentally because we share the same planet. Today it is even
more true with increasing economic and media globalization.

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