Think BIG

November 12, 2008

The first lesson of the Web: We have to get better at believing in the impossible. It’s been 6,527 or so days since Tim Berners-Lee created the first web page. And now billions of linked pages later here we are. Editor and publisher Kevin Kelly recently gave a talk at the Web 2.0 Summit. He takes a look back at the last 6,500 days of the Internet and makes his own predictions as to where we’re heading in the next 6,500 days.

We’ve gone from sharing computers to sharing links and now we’re going to share data, a mega cloud integrated into an all encompassing OS, creating one, always on machine, Kelly explains.

Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He helped launch Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor until January 1999. He is currently editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets 1 million visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control.