Next 5,000 Days of the Web
Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what’s coming in the next 5,000 days? About Kevin Kelly: Perhaps there is no one better to contemplate the meaning of cultural change — bad? good? too slow? too [...]
How Does Technology Evolve?
Kevin Kelly uses evolutionary theory to discuss the purpose and value of technology. By asking, “What does technology want?” he shows that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolution of life. Using a discipline-hopping range of examples — from exotic flora to the Big Bang, from the Amish to Mozart — [...]
