Blog Post #1

 My thoughts on "The Machine is Us/ing Us" is that towards the end, the video says that "we are the web." The way I see it is that depending on the sources we find online, whether it's an academic journal or just asking AI a question, all the information we find is made of human observations and as well as biased opinions, sometimes. However, the academic journals are made up of professionals' research, observations, and findings from that research they write down in that journal article for others to read. Since humans can share almost any information, they want to others without having to use complicated codes, we may need to rethink the information available as well as the research we decide to use from those documents. 

For Epic 2014, I had never heard of Friendster when in came out in 2002 as a way to connect with your people over the internet. I had always had Amazon in my life and I knew that they used to sell books only. I wonder how similar Friendster was to Twitter or Facebook. I had also never heard of Blogger either that was its on platform from 1999-2003. I know Sony and Phillips companies since one of my relatives who I believe still has a Sony TV. With time came better technology with a bit of entrepreneurial thinking in mind as to what customers wanted from Amazon, especially those they could not get in stores. From our interests and consumption habits places like Amazon and YouTube, for example, have our number.