Remember that video I embedded along with my first post? Well, after searching YouTube today I found some interesting responses to the questions the video posed, and thought one provided an interesting rebuttal, which has sparked whole conversations on YouTube about the future of how we communicate. Who do you agree with? Or do your thoughts differ entirely? I’d love to hear your thoughts on the matter.

Essentially, the rebuttal’s author (CoryTheRaven) sees the original “The Machine is Using Us” video as an exaggeration of the truth. CoryTheRaven agrees that the web (or, more specifically, Web 2.0) has made the transfer of information almost instantaneous, but at the cost of true human interaction. It may make gains toward fully imitating real life, but it will never be as good as the real thing. We may have to rethink our concepts of communication thanks to these gains in technology (that’s where you budding information architects come in!), but as of yet, there’s no need to rethink ourselves and our existence.

The most outstanding part of all of this is that this video reply sparked its own reply, creating a video conversation of sorts. Check it out:

This series of videos just goes to show you how communication is currently being rethought, and how user-based it really is. In itself, it’s a case for information architecture, and multimedia journalism as well. The exchange of ideas has entered a new platform, and it’s time we take note and adjust accordingly.