When it refers about cultural change, Kevin Kelly is your man. He was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1952 and has worked as a writer, photographer and conservationist. Nowadays, he lives in California, has married and has three children. Despite only going one year to university and then gave it up, his articles have appeared in such important newspapers as the New york times, Esquire, The Economist..
Kevin Kelly in his house of San Francisco.
Kevin Kelly has done lots of things during his life: founded Walking Journal, director of the Point foundation, editor of Whole Earth Review…However, in my opinion, the striking anecdote is that his book(Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World)was read before the start of filming The Matrix by the principal actors of the film.
But why am I talking about Kevin Kelly apart from being an excellent expert in digital culture?. The reason is that he has done a speech predicting the following 5,000 days of the Internet, and describes very well what is going to happen. Mainly, he explains that all the electronical devises will change into one machine. Not only does he explain that but also that there will be an increasingly contribution of users and that it will appear the semantic web. Finally, he says that the web will be better and it will be a renewed one.
Kevin Kelly during his speech predicting the next 5,000 days of the Internet.
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Kevin Kelly (editor). (2009, January 3). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12: 08, January 17, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Kelly_(editor)
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Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web.(July 29, 2008 ) In youtube. Retrieved 13:09,January 17,2009 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDYCf4ONh5M
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Transcription about Kevin Kelly’s speech.(2008, November 12)In wiki. Retrieved 14:23, January 17,2009 from http://wiki.littera.deusto.es/en/index.php/Ist0809/KevinKelly5000days
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Kevin Kelly: author, editor, publisher.In ted. Retrieved 14:56, January 17, 2009 from http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/kevin_kelly.html