The ONE, the future of the web

Originally published on The Digital Fold blog - which I no longer post on.

The Internet, is getting huge. I mean massive. I contains petabytes of information, which are accessed every day, every hour, every minute, every second by millions of us. In science, this has had a great impact. No longer are models needed. There is enough data out there upon which one can through computing power in order to find the patterns and understand the science. That's the basic premise behind Chris Anderson's article "The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete", published in the July issue of Wired magazine.

And when you think that the web as we no it today, is barely 5000 days old. What about the next 5000? Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired magazine, made a presentation last December at TED in which he talks about the future of the Web, beyond the simple PC-to-PC connection, to a level of complexity when the future web, or as he puts it, the One, will link both to the digital and to physical objects. The web will become one machine, one computing entity, similar to the human brain. He describes the One as

There is only one Machine.
The web is its OS.
All screens link into the One.
No bits will live outside the web.
To share is to gain.
Let the One read it.
The One is us.

Here's the embed video presentation.


Enjoy!

P.S.: Thanks to cguy for the Kelly video