Kevin Kelly (debate)

Kevin Kelly is an American writer, photographer and conservationist whose writings, despite dropping out of university after one year of studies, has acquired relevance being published in newspapers such as “The New York Times” or “The Economist“. So great has been his success that the well-known film Matrix was based on evidence from his book. We’ve decided to dedicate this article to Kelly due to his wide knowledge on the subject.

According to Kelly, the web has suffered a dramatic change. Whereas years ago, it used to be a green screen with cursors, connecting one computer with another, being known as the “net”, we’ve moved to a new stage now. This stage we are actually in, uses the idea of linking pages. Should I want to go to an airline web page, I will go from my page to FTP site. The evolution the web has suffered is exemplified by the 100 billion clicks done per day or the 2 million emails sent per second. Besides, in the year 2005, there were more than 100 web pages available per person alive. With regards to the future, the web is going to continue its development until it becomes part of us, becoming us at the same time part of it.

As a clear example of this development, we’ve got eBay, the famous portal to sell and buy objects. As Kelly mentions in his article “Ten years ago I heard sceptics swear nobody would ever buy a car on the Web”. Last year eBay Motors sold $11 billion worth of vehicles”.

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References

• “We are the Web” by Kevin Kelly. In Public Television Affinity GroupCoalition. Retrieved 19:30, November 17, 2008, from: http://www.ptv-agc.org/RR-WeAreTheWeb.pdf.pdf

• We are the web. In Wired. retrieved 19:37, November 17, 2008 from: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html?pg=2&topic=tech&topic_set=

• Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web. In Ted, ideas for spreading. Retrieved 19:40, November 17, 2008. From: http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html

• Transcription of Kevin Kelly’s talk about the next 5000 days of the web. In Wiki Littera Deusto. Retrieved. 19:40 November 17, 2008. From: http://wiki.littera.deusto.es/en/index.php/Ist0809/KevinKelly5000days

• Kevin Kelly (editor). (2008, October 9). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19:10, November 17, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Kelly_(editor)&oldid=244052430