Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web
My friend Rupert pointed me to this video of Keven Kelly. It’s a really great 20 minute summary of a lot of ideas that have been floating around for awhile. The basic thing that I get from it is that we’re all becoming part of one global machine and what really makes it powerful is us being open or transparent to it.
Being open to the network is an idea that I personally find inspiring and liberating. I have a few blogs, I participate in a number of social networks and virtual worlds and I post lots of videos and photos of myself, my friends and my family online. Some people find that kind of behavior somewhat alarming - especially where my kids are concerned. But I’m looking at it from a little farther down the road. A cell phone used to mean you were on call 24/7 but now it means you have access to everyone and everything 24/7 and that’s powerful. I think for many people, putting yourself out there on the web feels like an invasion of privacy. If you were only one, I’d agree it might feel like being the only naked person in the room. But if everyone were naked, then maybe it’s not such a big deal.
I’m not saying there aren’t issues with everyone putting everything online but I’m optimistic that we’ll figure it out as we go without turning the world into some version of Gattica or 1984. Either that or the cyborgs will be showing up soon and they’ll start making their way through the list of TED speakers.
August 26th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I was captivated by Kevin Kelly’s TEDTalk, also. After watching this video I co-authored an article titled “The Immersive Internet and Kevin Kelly’s ‘5,000 days of the Web.’” My core points:
* Kelly says the digital will be embedded in the physical. My add: The physical will also be embedded in the virtual – it will go both ways.
* Kelly says the semantic Web will link data to data. My add: We will understand the machine through our senses.
Link to the article here: http://tinyurl.com/6el2vg.
-Erica Driver, Principal, ThinkBalm
August 26th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Nice, Erica. Thanks for sharing the article!
August 27th, 2008 at 6:31 am
Hi Erica, I agree with the ideas in your article and I think the interesting thing will be to see all of the things that we didn’t anticipate that turn out to be even better than we imagined. About 4 and half years ago, excited about the possibility of videoblogging I made some predictions about this upcoming election. It hasn’t panned out quite like I thought and in many ways it’s much better.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:57 am
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