kurthlabThu, Feb 25, 2010 Wow, I am simply baffled about Kevin Kelly's statements on the TED video. His views of the Web are so 1990's, where such utopian notions of the web were part the daily agenda. The simple fact that he believes the information is floating out there, and the fact about the web being aware of who you are. We already have web ID's now, and have multiple efforts going on that try and accomplish that, where I can use my facebook ID to login to another account of another service, it is less about the technology and more about human behavior (choices), we don't always want others to know about us or follow our every moves, and we can't always agree upon standards, nor do we all trust each other. And the web is not that big cloud that floats around and connects to each other, without servers that belong to somebody (privately owned mostly) there would be no information on the internet. He has a very child like idea of what the internet is and it baffles me that Ted would host this.
This is not Star Treck the Next Generation and we are not part of the Borg collective.
Wow, I am simply baffled about Kevin Kelly's statements on the TED video. His views of the Web are so 1990's, where such utopian notions of the web were part the daily agenda. The simple fact that he believes the information is floating out there, and the fact about the web being aware of who you are. We already have web ID's now, and have multiple efforts going on that try and accomplish that, where I can use my facebook ID to login to another account of another service, it is less about the technology and more about human behavior (choices), we don't always want others to know about us or follow our every moves, and we can't always agree upon standards, nor do we all trust each other. And the web is not that big cloud that floats around and connects to each other, without servers that belong to somebody (privately owned mostly) there would be no information on the internet. He has a very child like idea of what the internet is and it baffles me that Ted would host this.