Today in class we watched a video called "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us" and it completely blew my mind. The first thing about it that amazed me was how fast the video shared all it's different information. I'm glad we watched it a second time so that I could be able to read everything that was "written" in it. I think society may be approaching a point where we are getting used to absorbing information so fast that we can easily forget just as fast. I haven't gotten to that point yet because I still like to take my time when it comes to reading. This video was also very enlightening. The video starts out with someone writing on paper, then transitioned to a blank "document" with typed letters. This part got my  attention because it shows how technology has evolved our way of writing. Most of us don't even own lined paper anymore, or at least I don't think so. We use our ipads or tablets or other electronic equipment to write and take notes, and I've seen this in my classrooms too. The first few seconds of this video showed just how much technology has taken over even the most simplest things in our daily lives and we haven't even noticed. Centuries ago, paper was extremely hard to come by. We've been writing on paper for, I think, hundreds of years. But we've been writing in our digital items for a decades or so. That's a huge difference in time. It hasn't been too long that we've had computers around but already we're forgetting the value of handwriting. The video then goes on to describe how the web had started out as templates of programmed text, which too tedious hours of work to get right for the early programmers, and how it has evolved to where you can post just about anything on the web in a few seconds. It's mind boggling how there's so much information out there in the world that's not in books.