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This morning Lars Juhl Jensen shared an item on FriendFeed which I just had to blog about. In the video below, Clay Shirky likens the current developments in particpatory media production (aka web 2.0) to the industrial revolution and I think he has a point. Towards the end of his talk, he illustrates the pervasiveness of these recent events with the following story:
I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. And in the middle of the movie, apropos nothing, she jumps up off the couch and runs around behind the screen. That seems like a cute moment. Maybe she's going back there to see if Dora is really back there or whatever. But that wasn't what she was doing. She started rooting around in the cables. And her dad said, "What you doing?" And she stuck her head out from behind the screen and said, "Looking for the mouse."

Here's something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. Here's something four-year-olds know: Media that's targeted at you but doesn't include you may not be worth sitting still for.
Most scientists have not made the transition of this four-year-old, yet.

Posted on Friday 22 August 2008 - 09:37:05 comment: 0
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