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The Web’s Next 5,000 Days
by Chris Higgins - August 12, 2008 - 5:08 PM

WIRED Executive Editor Kevin Kelly reveals an interesting stat in his TED Talk: the Web is only 5,000 days old. If you went back fourteen years and told someone what would arise in the next 5,000 days, most people would tell you that amount of growth was impossible. Wikipedia? Google? YouTube? Mental_Floss Blogs? Impossible! So Kelly asks: what’s going to happen in the next 5,000 days?

Discussed: the Web as “TV but better” (not), Wikipedia, constructing a global machine, 100 billion clicks per day, 2 million emails per second, how much electricity the Web uses, complexity of the Web versus a human brain, the Web as a black hole, how links work, the internet of things (how links will work), to share is to gain, and more.

Totally geeky and a nice twenty-minute diversion. Check it out:

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  1. 5,000 days doesn’t seen long. 14 years yes, but putting it in days seems shorter for some reason. kinda puts things in perspective.

    posted by Claire on 8-12-2008 at 8:00 pm

  2. He made that sound creepier than it is. Saying, “The One is us,” just makes it seem like some Big Brother sort of system. Very interesting presentation.

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    posted by Nicole on 8-12-2008 at 10:46 pm

  3. I admit it… I watched it all. It did sound a little creepy, but I tried to imagine the future with all these devices connected to the central THINGAMAJIG — something that is sort of happening now.

    Still, I’m not clear what will have enough value that you can make money from it, and if we can retain our liberties by being so opaque.

    If you need to reach me, just fax my airline seat.

    posted by David H. on 8-13-2008 at 3:02 pm

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