TED Talk: At the 2007 EG conference, 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?
Kevin Kelly has been publisher of the Whole Earth Review, exec editor at WIRED, founder of [...]
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Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web
Clay Shirky: How Social Media Can Make History
Via TED: While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
About Clay Shirky: Shirky, a prescient voice on the Internet’s effects, [...]
