The Web is only 5000 days old, and it went into what 10 years ago would have been considered impossible.
This is a great lecture by Kevin Kelly, a former executive Editor of Wired.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_th e_web.html
He asks the question: what will happen in the next 5000 days? Fascinating. Right now, the entire linked computer system that forms the internet web (which he calls a single, global machine with lots of windows into it) has the approximate processing capacity of one human brain. But the brain isn’t doubling in power every two years like the web. By 2040 the processing power of this “machine” will exceed the processing power of all of humanity. He anticipates COMPLETE global codependence upon the internet web over the next 5000 days. Luddites, beware!
By the way, right NOW all the computers and servers and infrastructure that makes up the web uses 5% of the eletricity of the ENTIRE planet. And that energy consumption will continue to grow at an unimaginable rate….
Frankenstein has escaped the castle folks.
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The Web is only 5000 days old, and it went into what 10 years ago would have been considered impossible. This is a great lecture by Kevin Kelly, a former executive Editor of Wired.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ke...
He asks the question: what will happen in the next 5000 days? Fascinating. Right now, the entire linked computer system that forms the internet web (which he calls a single, global machine with lots of windows into it) has the approximate processing capacity of one human brain. But the brain isn’t doubling in power every two years like the web. By 2040 the processing power of this “machine” will exceed the processing power of all of humanity. He anticipates COMPLETE global codependence upon the internet web over the next 5000 days. Luddites, beware!
By the way, right NOW all the computers and servers and infrastructure that makes up the web uses 5% of the eletricity of the ENTIRE planet. And that energy consumption will continue to grow at an unimaginable rate….
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