Nov

WWW Becomes WWDatabase

In the 6,527 days since the Tim Berners-Lee made the first web page we’ve gone from sharing computers to sharing links and now – sharing data with the semantic web:

Kevin Kelly (founder of Wired Magazine) at the Web 2.0 Summit, Nov 5 – 7, 2008, in San Francisco, CA gives his impressionistic view of what he thinks we are all headed towards.

This video starts with a brief review, then at about the 3 minute point – the web as OS.

During the next 6,000 days, we move from Web 2.0 into the Cloud. Information and data all moves into the database where it can be shared. If it can’t be shared it doesn’t count. What can we do with this new sharing world in the cloud? The extended self - where do we begin and where do we end?

What has happened during the past 6,500 days was impossible. We have to get better at believing in the impossible.

Are we on the way to a borderless world where people access, share, connect and create conversations, information, knowledge, and cultural objects and share them with the world?

Video – Kevin Kelley – Looking back 5,000 days, looking ahead 5,000 days

The Trust Economy

PostSingular – What will happen after the singularity?

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
– George Bernard Shaw