Learning about the world through video – twentybn – Medium

Video plays an increasingly important role in our lives. As consumers, we collectively spend hundreds of millions of hours every day watching and sharing videos on services like YouTube, Facebook or Snapchat. When we are not busy gobbling up video on social media, we produce more of it with our smartphones, GoPro cameras and (soon) AR goggles. As a growing fraction of the planet's population is documenting their lives in video format, we are transitioning from starring in our own magazine (the still image era) to starring in our own reality TV show. All that is arguably just the beginning.