August 4, 2008

"Every screen in the world is looking into the one machine."

20 Minutes well spent on the next 5000 days:

Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web | Video on TED.com At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days?

One hundred billion clicks per day. "What we're getting out of all these inventions is one machine." "It uses 5% of all the electricity on the planet." A brilliant talk by a brilliant man. Check it out.

Posted by Vanderleun at August 4, 2008 5:00 PM
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James Burke expressed some of the same ideas of being transparent and interconnected twenty years ago. I wonder what will happen to our perception of skeletons in closets. The screwed up things we all do as humans will not go away in 5000 days, neither will the guilt and fear with which we chain ourselves to those skeletons. Can we become so transparent that we condone all things? Or, would we be stamped forever with the Mark of Cain and there after be a pariah in the machine?

Posted by: David McKinnis at August 4, 2008 8:51 PM