Kevin Kelly

My main issue with Kevin Kelly's speech was the dramatization. I felt almost like I was watching an infomercial salesman, trying to sell his concept of Web 3.0 with charts and pictures. He brought up some interesting points, trying to use factual evidence (for instance the number of clicks per day- 100 billion- or the number of online links- 50 trillion) as support for his argument. However, some of his proposed arguments about the internet in the future seemed a little far-fetched to me. He proposed this idea that the internet would be one compact machine and that the rest of the world would just be viewing it on individual portals- computer screens, smartphones, etc. As he said, humans would become an extension of the machine. Everything would be part of the web, be owned by the web. Perhaps the reason that I found this hard to believe is just because it's such a vast and intimidating concept. It sounds almost like the plot-line for a science fiction movie. Also, the way he was proposing it made it seem like it was fact, set in stone, and that it would happen sometime in the near future. I can't see a change like that happening overnight, but a gradual process taking place maybe over the next decade or so.