Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web

[pageoneresults]

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?

19 minutes and 33 seconds of sitting on the edge of my seat listening to this guy spill statistical numbers that many of us just don't think about. For instance...

• 1 billion PC chips on the Internet
  
• 2 million emails per second
  
• 1 million IM messages per second
  
• 8 terrabytes per second traffic
  
• 65 billion phone calls per year
  
• 255 exabytes magnetic storage
  
• 1 million voice queries per hour
  
• 2 billion location nodes activated
  
• 600 billion RFID tags in use

And then he throws out a couple more numbers like...

• 100 billion clicks per day
  
• 55 trillion links

If you have 19:33 minutes/seconds of your life to spare, don't miss this video. The numbers this guy discusses are unbelievable. And, these are as of 2007 December. So, they are not that stale. :)

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I have to give credit to Lora Lufark for sharing the story with me. Thank you Lora!

Edited to correct second video time reference. Thanks rocker, I hate mistakes like that. :)

[edited by: pageoneresults at 1:33 am (utc) on Aug. 2, 2008]

[rocker]

Very interesting. Kevin Kelly is a very witty guy.

"The first person to buy a fax machine was an idiot, he didn't have anyone to send a fax to." :)

If you have 23:19 minutes/seconds of your life to spare, don't miss this video.

I must have a faster connection than you, it only took 19:33 :)

[weeks]

Possible, maybe.
Necessary? Useful? Practical? No.

That is the question facing mobile now. We CAN do all of these "things," but where is the need?

Who is not important.
What is will get worked out.
When--5,000 days. Whatever.
Where? Boring.
How? That's easy.
How much? Depends.
It depends on the answer to the real question.
Why?

[HuskyPup]

I just love presentations like this since they try to predict the future, usually unsuccessfully, however this is greatly entertaining and very insightful.

We'll know in 5,000 days!