Viral video- web 2.0

Though somewhat idealistic, this video: Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing us (which I originally found through another blog) is a great demonstration of the use of new media to demonstrate a concept...about new media. Why do I call it idealistic? Maybe because of my post earlier today about a substitute teacher facing jail time because a school didn't have antivirus software installed, and it didn't occur to her to immediately pick up the evil computer and fling it across the room to cast its demons out. So on the one hand, we, as end users of a computer are more empowered than ever before, what with having access to all this xml goodness. And on the other hand, we have a society that's "not quite there yet" in terms of both understanding these increasingly more complex tools and refereeing the human behavior surrounding the digital capabilities.