Recently at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Kevin Kelly gave a great speech describing his thoughts on where the web is going.

He begins his presentation by stating that it was about 6500 days ago when Berners-Lee created the first web page. The internet began as something which linked computers. Next, web pages emerged and links were shared. Finally, the data within the pages began to become linked with each other. Mr. Kelly describes this process as un-structuring everything in the world down its most elemental form, and then restructuring it so that machines can read it. This restructuring of literally everything in the world and throwing it on the web is what many call “The Cloud.” 

Anyways, the interesting part of the presentation is how Mr. Kelly thinks the next 6500 days will be. When the internet was in its infancy, people were describing it as “TV, only better.” Obviously that is not the case. Mr. Kelly rightly states that when we try to describe the next 6500 days of the web, we would be very foolish to say, “The Web, only better.”

Enjoy the whole video!

Kevin kelly web 2.0

Thanks to The Future of Music blog.

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