Dave Jorgensen

I'm Dave.

I've spent pretty much my entire adult life working in video journalism and media.

But what is media, and what forms does it take?

Let me show you an example.

This is Kipu.

It was used by the Incas in South America.

It's a system of knots and strings, and every knot, the shapes, the colors, dimensions, numbers, all of it works together to tell a story.

While you and I may not understand khipu or how it works, this is a form of media.

And let me give you another example of media from across the pond in around 370 BC.

So Plato wrote this story where he was imagining a conversation with his real-life teacher, Socrates, and a student, Phaedrus.

Eventually, the conversation veers into a debate about speech-giving and whether or not you should do it, kind of like 10 moderators deciding whether or not I should be at this event.

Spoiler alert, I'm here.

So I think I'm supposed to be.

Anyway, the conversation eventually veers into another part where Plato, as Socrates, says that the written word is actually bad, that it could be misinterpreted and taken out of context.

So in other words, people have always been afraid of media and how it could be manipulated.

So hundreds of years later, one of the first films to ever come out, black and white.

It's a train platform.

This is a French film, so these are all French people on a French train, I presume.

That train is coming really fast.

It was coming right at us.