Futurist Predictions

Examining Kevin Kelly’s Next 5000 Days of the Web[1], there are some rather startling revelations which Kelly points out.  One of which is the notion that all of our collaboration from the web leaves little room for people or society to take awe and marvel at the work and progress which has been made via the web; a sort of technological apathy.  This apathy is restated later within his presentation where Kelly implies that through the process of social networking and collaboration online that there is a willingness to provide more personal information thus creating a scenario from a future perspective of personal identifiable transparency.  While I begrudgingly see this as an eventuality its concerning from a privacy protection standpoint where one could control the facilitation of their personal attributes.   Perhaps this is a dated concern whereby if everyone’s personal information is made publicly available how can it therefore be of value in which to exploit if it is understood by all.  It’s perplexing scenario to get one’s head around but certainly is both interesting and provocative none the less.

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[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html