Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web
The vBusiness Expo launches tomorrow. Sitting here at my keyboard tonight I was tempted, once again, into thinking about how bleeding edge what we were attempting was. A large congregation of people, using custom software, to meet each other in a way that very nearly approximates the physical in its benefits, and in some ways exceeds them. We are glimpsing the future, not by making guesses about where things are going or by running projections, but by finding people who are doing the things we expect will be commonplace someday down the road. We are, in a sense, touching the future.
It’s all heady stuff but you know, when I see something like this, it feels like a drop in the bucket:
http://www.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?
Do check it out. It’s always good to feel humble.
