In Micheal Wesch’s video “ Web 2.0… The Machine is Us/ing Us” he suggests that everything that the computer knows is controlled by us. He says that everything we search and type it remembers it. Like when you search something on Google. When you type in the search bar a ton of suggestions come up under it of what other people have searched. It knows what we like. It knows what we did a day ago on it.
We look at the computer today and see that it is a powerful piece of technology, although most of us don’t know that we are being used by the machine so it becomes smarter. We could loose one of the most important freedoms we have to the computer and it is our power to think. You don’t have to have any senses to live. But thinking is the most important thing in our life. If we loose the power to think then we cannot live our life to the fullest. Sometimes your on the internet search something up and other people think why you did search up that item. What if it was the computer asking you “Why did you search that up instead of something already in the system”? I know it is unlikely for a computer to start talking but it knows what we usually search.
We are creating something that knows us and is becoming smarter and smarter. We need to ask ourselves who is the smartest.
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