This video podcast from the TED Talks people features Aaron Koblin, who specializes in taking massive amounts of data — or massive groups of people — to create visualizations. I’m in awe of people who can do this kind of thing and I’m especially impressed with this young man’s effort to crowd source a video for a Johnny Cash song. He begins by recalling a tweet of a (unnamed) media theorist, who said: “19th century culture was defined by the novel, 20th century culture was defined by cinema, and the culture of the 21st century will be defined by the interface.” That’s an interesting observation about how we organize our narratives, but also what we think are important about narratives I think. Here it is, about 18 short minutes long:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v4XxlfVk3o[/youtube]