Kevin Kelly

In the past 5000 day, the internet has evolved into what it is today. It has turned into this universal web place where users control it. We never thought Wikipedia would be what it is today with all of its information. Satellite images of the world seemed to be impossible before. Kevin Kelly refers to the web as one machine that runs without interruptions. It works like our brain, except the internet doubles every two years!

The second stage is linking. We cannot stop people from linking pages or linking to you. The third is linking pages. Every person or item will have a specific code which will link to something. The web will be able to read itself such as places.

Billions of social sites on the web. Kelly thinks you should only have to tell the web your personal information once, and then any other time, the web should be able to know your information.

It is just surprising to me that the internet has come as far as it has today and that we are still going farther in so far as trying to design the internet in a way that will understand us and know us personally. I don't know if I like this step in society. Personally, I don't want a computer knowing all of my information and becoming that dependent on technology.

Web 3.0

Technology continues to change and this includes the internet. The web has changed from 1.0 to 2.0, and now seems to be heading in the direction to a Web 3.0. Right now the Web 2.0 is based on social networking and the users contributing to its success. Web 3.0 will be the start of a "personal assistant" type of internet. We are already starting to experience this with Pandora, where it is like a personal radio; it makes a playlist based on the type of music you picked. So it works for you and knows what you like. This is what the internet might be like in the future. The internet is going to do the work for you.

I don't know how I feel about this yet. It does seem like a good idea - the fact that the internet knows what you want and is more personal. However, I don't think it is a good idea for us to become so dependent on the internet. I personally don't want to get that dependent on the web because I like to do things on my own. Also, how safe can this be. I feel that a lot of personal information might be out on the web and personally, i wouldn't feel comfortable with that.

If this is the direction that that the internet is headed towards for the future, then so be it. I personally don't want it to, but it cannot be stopped.

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