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A 2007 talk by Kevin Kelly about what changed in the 5,000 days since the web was born and what might await us during the next 5,000.
The first lesson of the Web: Have to get better in believing the impossible.
Some of these statements are passionate and might seem rather unrealistic (of course, that is the point somehow), but I like to hear about such ideas.
Kevin Kelly also wrote a piece about the concept of singularity, that deals with a similar topic.
Very likely, in the near future, I won't "own" any music, or books, or movies. Instead I will have immediate access to all music, all books, all movies using an always-on service, via a subscription fee or tax. I won't buy – as in make a decision to own – any individual music or books because I can simply request to see or hear them on demand from the stream of ALL. I may pay for them in bulk but I won't own them. The request to enjoy a work is thus separated from the more complicated choice of whether I want to "own" it. I can consume a movie, music or book without having to decide or follow up on ownership.
It's hard to pick a good quotation from Kevin Kelly's "Better Than Owning" because at first, the text is pretty easy to agree with but becomes more and more questionable when Kelly starts to write about shared ownership of clothing.
I have learned today that a 4-year-old child in present time supposedly "knows" seven times as much as a 70-year-old person from our grandfathers' generation. We did not discuss this statement any further but I find the idea very intriguing.
In his "Anachronistic Science" article, Kevin Kelly mentions something similar:
For instance, I have a public Long Bet prediction that in 2075 some smart high school kids will be able to cobble together a working artificial intelligence from vintage 2005 hardware unearthed in landfills. Using only materials that we have today, and a lot of new software, a perfectly good AI could be made. If true, that means that in theory we could make an AI today with the chips and hardware we already have. We are just missing the know-how to hook them up.
I am not sure whether I would hold the bet.
Kevin Kelly thinks about the „culture of cloudiness“, i. e. what will happen when we move more and more – and eventually all – of our personal information into the digital cloud that is the Internet.
Privacy is over. Or more precisely, privacy as we imagined it is over. The extended self requires a different finesse for grappling with the levels of intimacy humans need. The binary functions of public/private, or even friend/not friend have to yield to more nuanced, more complex ways to describe our relationships.
I’m always in the need of more nuanced visibility settings when I open an IM client. Go future!
