Piloting+3_3_Rebekka&Davide&Nuno+Macedo

Third Assignment by Rebekka, Davide & Nuno

Media Evolution & The Virtual Evolution 1- The Great Leveling 1 of 4- BBC Documentary.
=The smartest brain in the world- The internet=

These two videos talk about the changes that were made in the last couple of years in the media world as well on the computer with the Internet. The first video is a kind of an "appetizer" for the second video and gives us a short summary of the evolution of human communication over time: how it was back in the 18th century and how it is now in 2011. From pigeons, to newspaper, to radio, to TV, to the web and so on. The second video is about the Internet, which is the smartest brain in the world according to Steve Wozniak- Co-founder of the Apple computer. We have had the Internet for 20 Years, and now 2 billions are online. 20-25 % of the people in the world use the Internet, so there are still 75-80 % who don't.

Is the internet a blessing or a curse?

How has it affected us?

And how will it affect the future?

These are just some of the questions we get presented for in the video. These issues are presented by a lady who has been studying and writing about the web for 10 years. She talks to some people who had a very important role in the history of Internet, such as Bill Gates (inventor of Microsoft), Steve Wozniak (inventor of Facebook), and Einar Kvaran (admirer of Wikipedia) among others. Einar Kvaran is very fascinated about Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia He has over a 1000 articles on this website, which is very well-known by everyone. One of the things that made Wikipedia so famous is the fact that everyone is able to edit information. 65 million people use the site every single month and there are about 14 millions articles on the site!

In short, the two videos are about how the Internet has affected and fascinated everybody in the whole wide world.