After watching ten YouTube videos and taking sixteen pages of notes on the virtual revolution, I am having trouble limiting my post to the assigned word count, but here goes…
Although we pay a bill for internet access, we do not monetarily pay for the World Wide Web itself. We do however pay by becoming a commodity to business all around the world. We are being “Traced, Tracked and Traded in pursuit of profit.” (Episode 3, part 1, 1:57) Our every digital step is being archived by Google in one or several of its massive data centers positioned around the United States, netting this company $200 every second at the time of taping for episode 3 of The Virtual Revolution. (Episode 3, part 2, 8:51) Google was developed to help the average user make sense of the internet by assisting one to locate quickly a quality web page rather than sorting through possibly thousands of underdeveloped sites to find one that is reasonably appointed. (Episode 3, part 2, 7:37) Google even scans our emails for key words to better decipher our consumer tendencies. (Episode 3, part 4, 1:50) We are consumers that are being consumed. (Episode3, part 4, 5:53)
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