The Machine is Us/ing Us

We didn't get to talk about this video in class tonight...yet it really made me consider the ways in which communication has changed throughout the last 15 years. While I was studying for my undergrad degree, email was a novelty sweeping through college campuses. Now, I'm trying to embrace technology and change my thinking about what literacy means. Which brings my thoughts back to the video...we seem to be in a constant state of creating new gadgets and applications to do more and share even more. We are connected all the time. Is this how we are the machine? Or is it how the machine is using us?