THE MACHINE IS USING US..

Today our sir Dr. Prithivis Mukherjee stressed to start writing blogs . He asked us to write a comment on a video named "THE MACHINE IS USING US". So I'm going to post a comment on the aforesaid video in this blog. So after seeing the video , I got an impression that it it was referring to the advent of  web 2.0 . This video is about how everything will change after the web 2.0 has come. The video is beautifully made showing how the world would change after web 2.0 . The video starts with the digitization of text and goes on to the data that will be generated by the people when web 2.0 is used to its fullest. First there just used to be text. But the digitization of text can be very useful. Be it hyper texts , hyperlinks , because hypertexts can link. And now a days the view source option  in the browsers can show much more than before. Before HTML was designed to define the structure of a web document. Now we can separate the form and content. So digital text can do better in many ways that just the normal text. Then came XML. It was made for the same purpose as for the HTML. But the main change was it does not define for but defines content. Now data can be exported free of formatting constraints because now would need to use database type of web. As now that the content was separated users need not know to write complex codes to write some articles , that's how easy it has become due to web 2.0 . Now its not just about the text , but also photos and videos like youtube because the XML format permits us to do such things. BASICALLY HTML ALLOWS US TO DISPLAY DATA BUT XML ALLOWS US TO TRANSPORT AND STORE DATA. Two sites can now mash data together. But the real problem starts now ; who will organize the data? . Its we everybody with database type web. But with this amount of data generating we are teaching something to the machine be with typing or clicking. So digital text is no longer linking information. Web as digital text is linking people. People now share , trade and collaborate on the web  and we need to rethink copyrights , authorship , identity , privacy and humanly aspects. So if we need to change ourselves for a machine , its not the machine that is using but its us who are being used the machines.