[Advisors] explaining the internet -- from child to expert

[Garth Graham]

What is interesting is that, when the complexity of understanding increases, so too does the complexity of conversational interaction. What was primarily one way at level one becomes, because of shared vocabulary, a balanced exchange about specifics at level five.  By level five, he is not “explaining” the Internet.  He’s having a conversation with an equal about narrow aspects of its current state, and thus illustrating the Internet’s complexity rather than explaining it. What this video might do depends on its imagined audience, and I can’t figure out who that might be. If the actual  story is about humanity’s adoption of a primary way of doing things without the capacity to understand its consequences, then it would need to be told another way.

GG

> On Nov 27, 2022, at 10:43 AM, Marita Moll <mmoll at ca.inter.net> wrote:
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> Hello advisors. Wired Magazine has produced this 30min video explaining how the internet works on 5 different levels -- from child to expert -- in small snippits of information. A child would never sit through more than the first few minutes. What is interesting is the rapid escalation in difficulty as soon as you move to any higher level of understanding. 
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> UMass Professor Explains the Internet in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED - YouTube