The Ted Talk I chose to watch and summarize is by Kevin Kelly, titled "The next 5,000 days of the web." He gave this talk in December of 2007. He talks about how the Internet is only 5000 days old. He says that it is really amazing that in only 5000 days we have access to things for sale, people’s phone numbers, weather, sports scores, and more. He says that your brain and the web work similarly except that your brain does not double its size like the web does. We have a whole bunch of screens in front of us, but they are not separate machines, they are all portals to one machine. This is also sometimes known as “The Cloud.” He suggests that everything will eventually be on the web, such as Word. Word is currently not the web but it will be. The web is like a black hole, sucking every little bit of information into it. The old world was where we had atoms, but now it is made up of digital things. He says that the next thing will be those two things combined. He lists the steps in which we received the web and how it worked and how it came to be. The stage we are I now is the linking data together. He explains that he believes that we will now go to the world of The Internet of Things, where everything will be connected to the Internet. He says that we have become so independent on the Internet that you don’t remember things any more, you just rely on Google. He concludes that in the next 5000 days, that it will not just be the web. It will be smarter, more personalized, and will be more ubiquitous. Begin to think about this: that the world and web is a very big organism.
1.Why do believe that this will happen in the next 5000 days?
2. Is this a reasonable suggestion?
3.What led you to become interested in this?
4. How did you calculate what will happen in the next 5000 days? (Why do believe this is what will happen and not something else?)
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