Interest: August 2005 Archives
Wired’s 10 Years that Changed the World is a must read for ppl of our generation. A great recap of the last 10 yrs on the World Wide Web. Starting from the founding of Netscape to the Empire that is Google, Wired gives us, techno-geeks a look at the past ten yrs of our cyber-lives. Most of us r oblivious to the business and the ppl behind everything that made the interweb what it is today. Wired even gives nods to founding fathers of the multimedia hypertech such as Bush and Nelson, whose idea were not achieved until the technology came around in the 90s. Their visions of a massive repository of knowledge were only truly brought to its virtual existence when we all came to embrace the interweb.
But Wired goes on the mentioning the true spirit behind the interweb. That ppl would gather together without boundaries, to share knowledge, ideas, and files. It is a community of its participants, a entity created by those who feed it. Wired also brings us the last 10 yrs of the struggle between those who wanted to use the interweb for greed and those who want it to be free.
How could we create so much, so fast, so well? In fewer than 4,000 days, we have encoded half a trillion versions of our collective story and put them in front of 1 billion people, or one-sixth of the world's population. That remarkable achievement was not in anyone's 10-year plan.
Writer Kevin Kelly ends with the future. He envisions that one day, the net will becomes a sentient machine. And we, now are the ppl that will bring it life. This machine, much like our brain will be the future of knowledge, and like the visions of Vannevar Bush, the Web will be our collective mind and spirit.
So much as the Wang has learned in the past year in Blogging, some how, this medium, has gotten the Wang of his lazy ass and to create content. I can’t say this is great stuff that I’m writing everyday, but much like the web, it has turned us into active producers. Anyone can and does contribute to this great machine, this mind of the future. In fact we are all parents to this child of Humanity.
