The following is a TED talkon the immediate future of the Internet from Wired executive editor Kevin Kelly. It should give everyone some perspective of where digital technology might be headed.
The Next 5000 Days of the Internet
September 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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hopkinstest
// Sep 13, 2008 at 6:20 am
I think the implications of Kelly’s vision for civil liberties are overwhelming. The idea that interests (frightens?) me most is his idea of “total transparency.” I am wondering what the price will be for those who do not wish to be part of “the machine.”
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mrhopkins
// Sep 29, 2008 at 10:30 am
My students were very interested in the quote about attention being a currency. What are the implications for people with attentional disorders? Will people with greater attention spans be at an even greater advantage than they are now? Is this a civil liberty issue, or just a fact of life.
Will the world created by digital technology encroach upon the world of people who chose to opt out in the way that modern society has encroached upon “primitive” cultures?
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estmid24
// Oct 1, 2008 at 12:48 pm
To be honest, I really cannot comprehend the idea of everything being linked to the internet. I can barely understand how the internet works let alone understand the entire system within physical objects we can grasp. Maybe just the idea of something within something that is “un-graspable” sounds just impossible to me!
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