"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow." - Bill Gates
"The machine is us/ing us." by Michael Wesch and Gates quote have similar interpretations. Both talk of the future of the internet. Our future isn't going to be the same as our past. The future is never really the same as the past, but our future is "The future." We have the technology to do possibly anything. We are the the initiators of this new age, the age of technology, and electronic gadgets.
While watching the video I was, lets be honest a little bored. I thought to myself "I've heard all of this before I've heard that the future will be different, I've heard that we are we are the most connected people yet because of the web." What captured my attention and made me think were the last few seconds of the video. I was interested in these last few seconds because I had never heard or thought about how we will have to rethink a few things; copy wright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family and ourselves. If we are creating the "Global Village of Tomorrow" like Gates suggests we will indeed need to rethink "life." Our new village, that is web 2.0, will have its own set of codes and conducts. It's own set of rules and its own way of life. We will need to learn a new way of life for this new way of living. No one can tell us how to figure this one out. We don't have older generations to answer the questions we may ask. We are the creators of this Global Village. We find ourselves in a position of authority. Authority over how we will run things, authority over what the future will hold. We are the "Founding Fathers", of Web 2.0, so to speak. If we don't make it a safe and useful environment who will? The way the future will be run is up to us!
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