I know that the internet has helped us accomplish a lot...but these two videos (Anderson and Dash) showed me in much more detail what has been and still can be accomplished.
In Anderson, i thought it was really cool how the internet has helped so many industries grow. Even if they are just unusual hobbies that most people wouldn't have social networks for. With the internet, they can. They can connect with both people who have that hobby and ones who just think what is being shown is awesome.Which kinda means that youtube was a site that helped this a lot. I don't honestly know if there were many video sites out there before youtube, but Anderson was saying that millions of hours are spent on youtube today and that in ten years, 90 percent of the info on the internet will come through video. And those millions of hours on youtube are not all just spent looking at stupid stuff...there are informational videos on youtube. With Anderson, i just found it really interesting what a little "light" as he calls it can do when there is a group with desire.
I thought that Dash's video was really interesting too. The whole idea of tools and networks...and not just internet. He said that the printing press helped his grandfather connect to Ghandi. But just the ways that people can learn how to use the tools that they have access to and can change things for society. This was shown in the Anderson video too with the man from (africa?) that was able to use TED talks in his own way and produce food to help hungry families. And now we have tools that can help a high school kid give his idea to someone who may be able to actually do something about it through just a twitter to the whitehouse. Its amazing what someone who some kind of tool and knows how to use it right can produce its own network and go on to accomplish something great.
I like what you said about YouTube having more than stupid stuff on it. I remember before I had a laptop and spent much time online, I'd heard of YouTube, but only because of really stupid videos that people were making fun of, so I didn't think of it a serious tool of connection. Actually, even up till this class I thought of it more as entertainment. I'm starting to think differently now though--a lot differently--about what sort of neat connections, interactions and productions can be made through a medium like YouTube. Course, once ya see things like the Virtual Choir that we watched early in this course, it's hard to not be imaginative about what sort of connections can be made via interactional technology! Nice post, thanks!
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