...but how and at what cost? The speed at which changes occur is drastically faster and varying due to the nature of the form. As related to the question Dr. Rosinski just posed, isn't the pencil and the actual form of writing a technology as well?
I find it interesting the breadth of change that can happen and the speed at which it can be done fascinates me. Once a written work is published, no quick changes can be made. To offer revisions and changes is a long process where that edited content must be proven to be valid. Whereas with Wikipedia, the content can be changed practically instantaneously, but at what cost? The validity of that content is
always called into question. However, there is greater freedom and it mimics our fast-paced lifestyle and the "we want it now" mentality.
The video, "The Machine is Us/ing Us", poses many interesting questions in my mind. Online technology and media is taking over many other forms especially the written form of writing and the actual hard copy of a book, poem, article, etc. When was the last time we purchased a newspaper, bought a book instead of using a Kindle, or hand wrote an assignment? Yet, what is more trusted: a published book or an online newspaper article? Does form dictate validity? I feel like, in reality, we are forming our identity around the machine and it arguably is using us.
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