Davis Introduction

In each of these videos Wesch is trying to explain to us that technology/media is literally taking over our lives in the sense that we will not find new advancements in life if we don’t find new advancements in technology.  For example, the web browser is basically and unlimited source of information for humans to obtain, but the only way this information can get out there is if humans put it out there.  In order to put information out, we first need to figure out THE information that is going on the web, and this is the hardest part of this process.  In the last video he talks about how humans basically act as if we’re robots, where a ton of us learn new information just for the sake of learning it and knowing more information in life.  
Yeah it’s a really good thing that we’re going to become more knowledgeable and “smarter” by using technology/media, however, it’s a matter of how we use this knowledge to impact the world in a positive, significant way.  In all of these videos, these advancements in technology/media are definitely a positive step into the future, but with this positive movement unluckily comes with negative consequences.  In Davis’s “Introduction” he talks about how such advancements in technology “cuts richness of the soul and from the deeply nourishing networks of family, community, and the local land.”  We are so focused in wanting “better technology” that we get too caught up and lose ourselves in this ideal utopian world where everything “could” be perfect (even though nothing in this world will ever be perfect). 
Even though these videos are a bit old, I feel as if they could’ve been published in the last couple of years because everything seems so relevant and makes perfect sense even in this time period.  The huge thing that actually changed is how much more dependent we are on this technology compared to a decade ago.  I can only see humans becoming more and more dependent as come out with even newer technology, but the difference in the next decade will definitely not be anywhere near the difference in the previous decade.  

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