Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1952, is an American writer whose writings have been published in several well – known newspapers of the USA: The New York Times, The Economist, Enquire… He is in addition executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog.

Apart from been a writer, he is also a photographer and conservationist.

Kevin Kelly has published lots of books, such as Cool Tools (2003), Bad Dreams (2003), True Films (2006)… But the most important and notable book written by Kevin is Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World, which was published in 19994.

As he tells us in his speech, which is available in YouTube, it was impossible to think few years ago that the Internet could reach the succeed that has achieved nowadays. According to Kevin, we could explain the Internet saying that we should “get better in believing in the impossible”. We have the example of “Wikipedia”, which we could say it’s an obvious of all the examples we can find of the power of the Internet. “Wikipedia” consists of a collection of all the varieties of articles about anything writen by people all over the world.

As a conclusion, and as Kelly mentions in one of his articles, “no one can escape the transforming fire of machines”.

 

Bibliography:

Kevin Kelly (editor). (2008, October 9). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11:18, November 14, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Kelly_(editor)&oldid=244052430

Kevin Kelly’s personal web. Retrieved 12: 15, November 13, 2008, from http://www.kk.org/

THE INTERNET

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks which interchange a lot of information using a system called Internet Protocol Suite. The internet is consisted of uncountable private, public, business, government and academic networks from local to global scope that are linked by fiber – optic cables, wires and wireless connections… and lots of technologies.

The Internet carries various information resources and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer and file sharing, online gaming, and the inter-linked hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW). 

After watching the extension and the powerful increasement of the communism around the world, the Aerean Forces of the USA decided to create a new military network. The aim of that project was to protect from possible nuclear attacks from the Soviet Union. The main characteristic of this new network was that if one or more computers were destroyed the network could still continue working. So, in 1964 the scientist Paul Baran decided to create this new network, which he named “The Internet”.

The opening of the network to commercial interests began in 1988. The US Federal Networking Council approved the interconnection of the NSFNET to the commercial MCI Mail system in that year and the link was made in the summer of 1989. Other commercial electronic e-mail services were soon connected, including OnTyme, Telemail and CompuServe. In that same year, three commercial Internet service providers were created: UUNET, PSINET and CERFNET.

On the other hand, in 1971 Ray Tomlinson created a new way of communication: the communication via email or what we call the electronic address. However, this new system wasn’t good enough so, one year later, in 1972, Lawrence G. Robert made it better adding some new programmes.

 Around 1980 Tim Berners-Lee designed a new hypertext system and in the end of the 1990 he created the HTTP and HTML. Those two softwares let people the possibility of surfing through the hyperlinks. And as the consequence of all that was born the World Wide Web.

References

http://es.kioskea.net/contents/histoire/internet.php3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet