Piloting+3_3_Simon&Mónica

Third Assignment

Summary of the first video, "Media Evolution":

The first video shows us the evolution of the media. It uses a timeline that represents the most important moments of that evolution, which started back in 776 BC when the results of the first Olympic Games were announced by carrier pigeons. Then it moves on to early 18th century when the first newspapers were introduced. Then radio broadcasts, then T.V., on which almost every one watched the most important moments, then electronic telegraphs and newspapers and finally servers, websites and social networks such as Google, MySpace, Yahoo!, blip.tv, Jumpcut, Blogger…. Media has evolved to a different and amazing level at which the news runs much faster than a carrier pigeon…

  

Summary of the second video, "Virtual Revolution":

The second video starts with a man saying that 20 years have gone by since the birth of the Internet and that it brought great transformations and great questions too such as: Is all being dominated by big corporations?… Sir Tim B. Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks that the Internet is one way of connecting humanity and that 20%-25% is using it, but what about the other 80% of the people? Dr Aleks gets asked if the Internet is a blessing or a curse. And how the web affected us during those 20 years. The journalist also claims that 2 billions of people are online right now... She's been studying and writing about this topic for 10 years and saw it “taking control of the world”. Bill Gates says that the web is how people communicate now. Steve Wozniak says that it is as if the Internet had become a brain, the most smart brain of all. Al Gore says that it is the most powerful tool and with more potential than the human civilization could ever had invented. Mark Zuekerberg says that the world is increasingly becoming more open and that the information is more available. The pioneers of the Internet were social misfits and wanted to give power to the people. One of the most important features of the internet is its access to knowledge through Wikipedia, where ordinary people are able to write anything. Wikipedia is the most used source of knowledge in the world. There is a discussion about Wikipedia on whether it can be trusted. In the end of the video she talks how Internet began in the 60s and how people in the 70s could get on it. This is the story of the web and how the web is remaking our world...