Kevin Kelly: Next 5000 days of the web

Futurist Prediction: Kevin Kelly: The next 5000 days Kelly’s prediction and video focuses on the concept of the “single global machine”. The single global machine is Kelly’s expression of the World Wide Web as a single collective of human thought and ideas. The architecture Kelly’s personification of the single global machine consists of the operating system and the application. The operating system of the single global machine is the World Wide Web as a system of interconnected network of servers that is operating 24 hours per day, 365 days per year with no interruption. Collectively, the global machine amasses 100 billion clicks a day and consumes up to 5 percent of the world’s total global energy.

Technologically, this machine is arguably the most impressive of inventions linking page to page, machine to machine and data to data. The growth of the network of computers and the doubling of power every two years gives us the impression that there is no end in sight to both the possibilities and the number of people and devices that will be able to tap into the collective machine. In the next 5000 days, Kelly envisions the process of restructuring of the web as a convergence of new applications, data and devices. The convergences of the three mentioned components create new uses which contribute tremendously to the overall body of what we know as the World Wed Web. Psychologically, humans have the ability to expand the capabilities of the single global machine by getting better at “believing the impossible” to push the current boundaries of human thought to match the level of boundless computation that the web is capable of handling. Kevin Kelly’s video: http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html