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=__ The Media/Virtual Evolution __=

Video 1:

The first video gives us a short idea of the Media Revolution since 776 B.C., when the results of the first Olympic Games were announced, until the invention of the Web, 20 years ago.

During that period of time, the video shows us the editing of the first newspaper introduced in the early 18th century, the first radio in 1901 and the first BBC television in 1936. In 1996 the first website was finished, which led to many other websites we know today, such as Myspace, Yahoo, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter.

Video 2:

Dr. Aleks Krotoski's been studying this revolution, looking at how it is reshaping nearly every aspect of human lives. Currently about 25%, which is a quarter of the people living in our planet (2 billion) use the web. It is considered the technological revolution of our life time. But the Internet also has a dark side. Many people think that the web is being blamed for creating a generation of web addicts.

So is the internet a blessing or is it a curse?

Aleks has spoken to the pioneers and key players of the net, people from Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon… and they all seem to share the same opinion: the web became the smartest brain in the world and this tool has more potential than any other human civilization has ever developed.

“It was a new frontier that gives us all equal access, equal voice, equal potential.”

In the last part of the video the Wikipedia is also mentioned as the most important information source in the world and Einar Kvaran, who is fascinated about the website and has written more than 1000 articles. Today, Wkipedia has 14 million articles.

Cheaper computers allowed the development of the first online comunity. “The Well” was set up in 1985 and without it there wouldn’t be as many web communities as there are nowadays.