“The Machine is Us/ing Us” by Michael Walsh Sheppard


Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

In this interesting video, Sheppard points out how incredible internet can do on writing and how we should use technologies which he calls “The Machine” with realization. From a pencil scratching on a piece of paper has become fingers touching on keyboard and click by one finger. His video shows how simple and fast. We also can simply revise the digital text, and research the sources we want for our wring. Moreover, he shows off the way we can add an element such as, picture, video, and link to design the writing.  From his main idea of this video, he reminds us of the human right such as; copy right, authorship, ethics, privacy, love and family. In my opinion, there are a lot of people who know the limit of what they can make the machine to work for them. Also, there are a lot of people who only want to take all of what they can to get themselves a convenience as they can. It seems like nothing we can do to stop these people, we can only hope that they will stop and think of how much they should expect the machine to do things for them. Before we run too fast to follow the modern machine, we should stop and think of what if we do not have it? What can we do with out it? Can we live with out the machine?