the web is using us

After watching the video in class I would have never been able to tell that it was from 2007, the concepts that it highlights about are still relevant today! The internet is constantly evolving, becoming easier to use and reaching new capacities that wouldn't have been even imagined 10 years ago (google glasses for example). While I found the whole video to be true the quote that I heard and I thought is just perfect was, 'we are the web' which is incredibly true. We have so much information at our fingertips and yet we still aren't satisfied, how can that be? When I was younger I thought that a desktop computer was the coolest thing since sliced bread but now there are laptops, tablets, mini tablets and especially our phones, they are the most portable computer we have. There are always upsides to these kinds of advances but there are also downsides so looking at both sides is the best way to understand what we are doing. Just like on the first day we talked about security cameras and how everyone is okay with having them so they protect your house but only a handful would be okay with putting them inside your house to 'spy' on kids, pets, etc. I think the most important part of the web and all the electronic things we have is to be aware of what they are capable of.