After visiting Ted.com and watching “The Next 5000 Days of the Internet” a talk by Kevin Kelly. I got a real sense on how fast the web is developing and it’s doubling every two years. Us as people are still not amazed with the web and what it can do. 50 years ago if people were to tell us that we would have this source of technology we wouldn’t believe them. Soon we started to believe in the impossible. All the computer’s, handhelds, laptops, video games, cell phones, and etc. . . there is really only one machine we are creating. Ted was talking about in 2040 the web will possibly exceed humanity in processing power and mentioned three consequences. .
1) Embodiment . . Giving this machine a body
2.) Restructuring architecture
3.) Codependency’
The funny thing is he briefly talked about how pretty much everything will be going through the web and connected to this one screen for example cars, sensors, cameras, microphones, and at the time of this talk cell phones were in the progress of becoming a part of the web. Currently and probably for the past 3 years the web has been a huge part of a cell phone society. Currently you can access the web from anywhere including your car. Today you can access almost anything through the web including data sheets.
There has been stages that has lead us up to todays use of the web.
1.) Being able to link computers. . which lead us to the development of the web
2.) Being able to link pages.
3.) Being able to link data to data. The one idea to another so that every idea is supported. Being able to resolve to that one idea and for example to be able to link directly to an actual place.
4.) The next 10 years would be the internet of things and actual physical things being apart of the web.
The web is codependent because it’s always going to be there. . the web is a to remember searches and we depend on the web for having all the answers. Today there is no need to take the time to remember numbers, dates, addresses, names because all you have to do is get out your phone and get on google and type in the question.
I really like how Kevin Kelly describes the progress of the web. . “The web is not only getting better but the web is a new kind of stage in this development that is the more global kind.”
Overall, Kevin explained at the end of his talk that this whole conversation about “The Next 5000 Days of the Internet” was mainly about how there is only one machine and the web is it’s OS. All screens from different devices all lock into one. There won’t be anything that isn’t in the web. In order to share is to gain! Letting the one read it. . the one is us.
It is fascinating to think about how one idea, and one device became a huge part of life, and is continuing to evolve. As much as we make think it's scary, it's a way of process improvement. I would like to think that as a way for us to grow, we can remain static with what we have, but then I also wonder if all of this technology is unhealthy and will only hinder our sustainability. I am curious to see how giving computers a body will turn out. I think beyond a "computer". but think of anything that runs off of a computer, like a vending machine. I feel like we are giving "life" to these computers.
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