Man that was a long video! http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks /kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html
This man has a really in depth interpretation of how the internet is moving with us and growing around us. The way he draws an analogy of the internet to brain synapses is very interesting. I can't claim that he enlightened me completely, but the way in which he compares the internet really creates a more relatable way of viewing it. Kelly explains how the internet is continually filling in the cracks, but I must admit some of his assertions are creepy, realistically so. The dependence he suggests is being created and reinforced every second of every day is really an uncomfortable concept, mostly because I can sense it within myself. But largely because I just watched the terminator series.... heh
"The first person to buy a fax machine was an idiot"... Straight forward and true hhahhaha
Hi Lorin,
ReplyDeletethe terminator series warns us not to trust technology too far. Letting machines fight our battles for one thing, and machines thinking for themselves it the other theme. By way of that scenario, we should wonder if the internet will really take over our lives. Or be perhaps become like HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL wanted to be it's own person.
Thanks for the interesting thoughts.
Bernice
Lorin -
ReplyDeleteI have to say I feel the same way you do about being uncomfortable about our dependence on the web becoming greater and greater. It's not that we all don't enjoy its perks, like information at our finger-tips and easy communication with literally anyone that is connected. It's more about who's watching everything we do and what will they do with that information. Yikes!
Gail
The issue with privacy is that it isn't very constitutional. We have a reasonable right to privacy in this country, but that is just a component of being online.
ReplyDeletePeople steal identities and billions of dollars; so the only way to combat that is to intervene. It is scary however, I don't like it! Not one bit!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8v8mgwuubU
ReplyDeleteTerence Mckenna has some radical theories, and I know some of his ideas and points in this video have some irrelevance, but his assertions about the human-computer relation have some interesting points...
Just figured I would share this, at least his ideas of "trans-human" transformation are neat.