The next 5,000 days of the web
While the Internet has been around for decades, the web is only around 15 years old.
A decade ago anyone suggesting that we’d all have instant access to vast stores of information, or satellite images of the planet, or near real-time photos from an event half a world away, for free, from a device we hold easily in one hand would have been thought a wild dreamer. Today it’s just reality.
We use laptop computers, large and tiny, cellphones, games machines, home computers, to connect to the Internet, sharing text, sounds and images instantly with billions of others.
All that in 15 years. But what’s next? What will we be doing in another 15 years? People often talk about what may happen next year, or even, at a stretch, the year after that, but Kevin Kelly stretches his mind , and ours, with a longer view:
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?
Download his 20 minute talk from Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web | Video on TED.com to find out what he sees in our future. The talk is around 70Mb, so you need broadband.
He offers interesting, and challenging, ideas. What do you think of what he suggests?
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