Kevin Kelly speaks
On December 2007, Kevin Kelly adressed a large crowd in Los Angeles, California, USA. He spoke about his expectations for the next five thousand days of the internet. He described the internet as one machine, and all the devices we use e.g. laptops, as components of this one machine. He described this machine as the most reliable machine ever made as it boasts elements such as no interruption.
Kelly described three consequences to having this “machine”.
1. Embodying: Every screen is a portal into this “machine”. Kelly predicts that phones and applications such as Word will eventually go through the web. He described the machine as a “black hole sucking everything in”.
Idea-to-idea linking
2. Restructure Architecture: Data will be linked different. Idea-to-idea will be linked rather than page to page.
3. Dependency: Kelly observed our new found dependency on sites such as Google.
Kelly predicts the internet will be smarter, more personalised and filling (we will be in the middle). He says that we will be in the machine.
“The one is us. We are in the one”
