I met Berners-Lee when I worked for NEC. He is still working on internet-related stuff, but it seemed to me to be off into the weeds a bit. This includes stuff like the semantic web, which is a pretty top-heavy 'solution' for a lot of the unstructured data on the web.

Anyway, this little video is also a little off in the weeds too. I can't really see how media organizations will somehow be replaced by machines, especially since, at the end of the video, independent 'editors' start to spring into existence to filter the media (but isn't that what the media companies are for in the first place?).

I think there is a solution for the problem of automatically harnessing all the information out there without using full-time human editors. Once I invent such a method, I'll retire in style

I think that some would argue that this is already happening. NPR did a segment a couple of weeks ago about the limited information that is produced by news sources. It seems we have more media sources, but they all are spewing the same stuff, with less detail. I forget the person's name, but he went to local news bureaus across the world(well maybe only the US) and discovered that there are less reporters now than in years past. The reporters are unable to handle many local stories or stories off-the-beaten path, so they stick to stories appealing to the masses.

So, I would think that if we all contribute to news, that we would know more. But if I understand the video, we would only get news that matched our profile? I think I will go watch it again.