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另一则短片可以说是对Web 2.0的省思，属於哲学与感性的，在网路上引起了极大反响，短片系由堪萨斯州立大学文化人类学助理教授Michael Wesch所制作，该校成立了一个名为「数字民族志」（Digital Ethnography）的工作组，网站上对此工作组的说明是：

a working group of Kansas State University students and faculty dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography.

注：Ethnography是個人类学專有名词，看到的翻译有「人种志」、「民族志」、「俗民志」等，Google上可以查到不少ethnography的英文定义，我觉得最简明易懂的是英国SPRINT（Salford Process Reengineering Involving New Technology）的解释：

The study of a particular organisation or group in action (in this case, in the workplace)

Wesch短片的「终极版」（Final Version）於2007-03-08公布，除了上传到YouTube之外，他还在「数字民族志」上写了一篇简介，短片的标题是「The Machine is Us/ing Us」，很难用中文翻译得「信达雅」，我姑且尝试把它译为：「机器适用我们？机器使用我们！」，请大家指教！

Wesch教授還提供了短片的WMV版（55 MB）與Quicktime版（96 MB），我去下載時始終說服務器忙碌無法下載，有興趣的可以去試試。

淡江大學土木工程學系博士班建築組研究生邱克豪在其网志上针对这段影片写了一篇导读，他说：

本影片正陳述著網路發展的進程，由最初的書寫工具，至當前網際網路的串連關係，說明其"進化"的過程。然則網路的媒體最重要的，是讓人與人之間，因為興趣、工作、心情、而搭起溝通與分享橋樑，達到互動的效果。

另外，「数字民族志」上也有这则短片里面文字脚本的全文，太占篇幅，所以此处只引用Wesch教授在短片最後語重心長的提醒世人「我們需要重新省思一些觀點：版權、作品來源、身份個性、倫理道德、美學、修辭學、統治管理權、隱私權、商業、愛、家庭、以及我們自己」：

We’ll need to rethink a few things…
We’ll need to rethink copyright
We’ll need to rethink authorship
We’ll need to rethink identity
We’ll need to rethink ethics
We’ll need to rethink aesthetics
We’ll need to rethink rhetorics
We’ll need to rethink governance
We’ll need to rethink privacy
We’ll need to rethink commerce
We’ll need to rethink love
We’ll need to rethink family
We’ll need to rethink ourselves.