Kevin Kelly, one of the co-founders of Wired, said that if we went back in time 10 years ago and told someone what the web is capable right now it would be branded as impossible. Guess what? Nothing is impossible. Today, everything and anything is on the web, from satellite photos, phone numbers, friends, products, auctions, videos, knowledge (wikipedia) and communication.

That’s what we have right now. The web is currently 5,000 days old. And it’s one massive machine. So massive that it is analogous to the human brain. Kelly does a talk on TED about what the web can do in the next 5,000 days. The possibilities are jaw-dropping.

The video after the break…

Before we go to Kevin’s talk, let’s see what the web’s current “stats” are…

• 100 Billion clicks per day
• 55 trillion links
• 1 billion PC chips on the Internet
• 2 million e-mails per second
• 1 million instant messages per second
• 8 terrabytes per second traffic
• 65 billion phone calls per year
• 255 exabytes of magnetic storage
• 1 million voice queries per hour
• 2 billion location nodes activated
• 600 billion RFID tags in use

That’s simply massive! Now, it’s time to watch the video…

Finally, Kevin made an ode to the World Wide Web…

There is only ONE machine.

The Web is its OS.

All screens look into the ONE.

No bits will live outside the web.

To share is to gain.

Sounds like the birth of The Matrix? Hmmm… time to decide which pill to take.

Via TED

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