Name: The next 5,000 days of the web
Uploaded: 2008-07-28T14:01:00Z
Duration: 19 min 12 s
Description: At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days?

At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days?

The next 5,000 days of the web

What feels ordinary today was impossible just a decade ago—the Web as we know it is younger than a teenager, yet now handles 100 billion clicks daily and connects trillions of links. All our devices form portals into what is essentially one vast, uninterrupted global machine. Over the next 5,000 days, this network will gain a body, learn in new ways, and become inseparable from daily life. It will reshape not just technology, but the way the digital and physical worlds merge.