How to.. Awe in Simple Life Discoveries

It is fascinating to me how many processes we can learn through digital media. We can do anything in many different disciplines at the click of a button. We don't even have to be with the person.

It's amazing how even simple things are on the internet. Before, like I am pretty sure all of us learned, you had a family member show you or you just heard and learned yourself. I think the thing that is awe-some, in an unsettling sense, about this one is the lack of dependence I feel we have on others. Why don't we ask for help from real people? Are we embarrassed? I'd like to think so, that's why people turn to the internet for way more embarrassing things than not knowing how to plunge a toilet.

How to plunge a toilet. (by two adorable old ladies)

We also turn to the media for more complicated things like how to beat a video game. We can go through whole processes with someone else showing us how to solve it.   Here's an intro on how to play Minecraft, which can also catch you up on the times.
Then here is a boy that plays the game Slender with you and helps you solve the game! It's incredible how much we can help people now from across the world. (The guy in the first video has an awesome accent.)

I was talking to my mom the other day about how anyone should be able to cook anything they want now a days because they can watch it step by step online. A video can turn anyone into a cook. In this day and age anyone can master anything. It's amazing!

You can easily learn a new skill you've never tried before. Digital media has made us crave learning like nothing else has, except maybe books. With the visual element we can learn much faster!
Learn to juggle, pick up a new skill, in under five minutes.

 You can connect through your devices in another way too. Take a screen shot of what you're doing on your device and send it to a friend and this erases all ambiguity of what you were trying to help them with. With technology we've taken a lot of the ambiguity out of things.

We can also connect to people of a different field. We can get the best of the best instruction on something we've never done from someone who is well-trrained in the area. That normally costs a lot of money. This how to shoot a gun according to the marine corp.

This is how to build a PC Computer Part one of three. Becasue it's on the internet we can stop and do a part and return to the video. There is not need to take a class and waste time getting there and home. You just do it from the comfort of your couch. The internet saves us lots of time.

This is a video of How to Be Irish. A little silly I know, but this is awesome because of the way it can transport you across the world into another culture. Talk about interconnectivity of the internet. You can be some where else as well in your living room.

This perhaps is the most interesting part of the internet for me. How by watching a screen we can become more physically healthy. No one looks at it that way anymore but think about it. It's incredible. How to get better Abs in 3 minutes.

Digital Media sources can also explain how we think. We can understand our own brains. This video is  about how violence affects how children think.

There is so much power in the collective human mind of the internet. We can understand so many processes, make some many things we would never be able to make otherwise, improve our health, and even understand our own minds. The internet can create the everyday awe we look for in life and inspire us to see the greater awe in the bigger picture of life.