The video could be used as an introduction to Web 2.0, but not for someone who hasn't already been using the Web. The pace uses concepts that assume the user knows the "old" definition. If the user doesn't, then the "new" definition doesn't make sense and won't register.
The video presents a concept of a Web 2.0 that seems on the face of it a little grandiose. Will the world really be that dramatically improved by collaboration? The real test is not going too well. For example, the freedom the Internet was supposed to represent is being fairly well controlled by China, with US companies willingly cooperating. Google has agreed to limits on access it never would impose on U.S. users. Russia is regularly launching denial-of-use attacks to any organization (especially news organizations in Europe and the West) that criticizes Putin or Russia.
We always seem to forget that a new tool does not change human nature, regardless of the intent of the tool's inventor. All we get is more of the same in new ways. I still remember how appalled the inventors of atomic energy were when they discovered it's "best" immediate use would be for the "greatest" bomb the world had ever known.
Only when we individually and collectively deliberately decide to act better than on impulse will there be improvement. The effect of Web 2.0 on humanity can be a double improvement over Web 1.0, or it can be a double worsening. Or both.
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