information r/evolution movie

22 October 2007

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this video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique & share information. this video was created as a "conversation" starter & works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future & the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate & create information effectively.

the movie is from Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Kansas State University, the same person behind the viral Web 2.0 video from February.

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well, basically it's nice. but too much focus on "web20", which is, compared to the old papery information just a lot of old-style cabinets, folders and files in more places (ie: not decentralism as the web was initially thought of, no centralism either but some kind of "olicentralism" ~ many centrals.)

To be more clear: photos->flickr. personal Homepage->myspace. blog->blogger. That's not decentralism, nor pure freedom and total anarchy as one previously thought about the "cyberspace" (even better example: Second Life as the "new cyberspace"? What a laughable thing,...)

Hopefully some semantic web-thingy based on a P2P-technology without (or not fully relying on) central servers...

To return to the subject: nice visualisation :) But they should have shown how the papery information can be changed (by scratching through etc)

damn damn nice, neat animation.

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