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Kevin Kelly On The Next 5,000 Days Of The Web: Bridging The Gap Between Virtual and Real.

Posted on 09. Nov, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

It’s that time of the year again, when we’re about to get bombarded by predictions for the next 12 months, 99% of which, let’s say it, are going to be wrong.

In this TED video, recorded at the Entertainment Gathering in December 2007, Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired , writer and futurologist, starts by observing that the Web is only 5000 days old, and offers predictions for the next 5,000 days. That should spare us up from a few years of wrong blabbering about unlikely futures.

Kelly postulates that the next Web will differ from the actual one because it will be:

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