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We have to get good at believing the impossible!

octubre 30th, 2008 · No hay Comentarios

    “We have to get good at believing the impossible…”this is one of the phrases that Kevin Kelly( considered by some people an expert in digital culture) says when he appeared on the T.V. speaking about the Web( you can watch the video:http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=yDYCf4ONh5M).He said that, because if ten years ago, someone would have spoken us about all the things that nowadays we can find in the Internet, we would have though that he or she was crazy.Although, in these days, we can find in the Web a lot of amazing things, which are impossible in theory but possible in practice, like Wikipedia.

So, what we have to do is to think about those impossible things, because they will maybe exist in a future.Personally, I have though about some ideas, that can seem stupid or crazy. But, I´m sure that would be very helpful and useful:

   – The Web would become our doctor. But do not imagine a doctor in front of the screen watching you and telling you the problem you have. I´m speaking about a super intelligent machine, which will know all about medicine. Like this, people may be more relax and we wouldn´t have any shame.

   – The Web would take the place of all the teachers. There won´t be more schools, academies… It´s more comfortable, more quickly…

   – The Web would be able with some programs to become the biggest help for people with any disabilities. Such as for blind people, deaf people… It would give them the independence they all want.

   – The Web would finish with all the business that the cinema make today.

And I can still mention many more. But, this is a thing all of us must do. Because, though now all these ideas do not make sense, in some days they can become essential for us.As K. Kelly asks himself: What`s going to happen in another 5000 days? Nobody knows that, but I´m sure that one of the ideas that I have said in this article will exist.

 

Sources:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Kelly – ( 17:49)

http://yaplog.jp/eigojyoutatsu/category_2/

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=yDYCf4ONh5M 

      

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