I love this guy. I think Kevin is really smart, he knows what's up, and he explained what my cloud will look like in the future in a way I can understand. While I enjoyed what he had to say, he also reinstalled fear into my life. It's scary to think how much The Cloud consumes my life especially because "in 5,000 days all this stuff has come and we would have said it was impossible" if someone had tried to explain The Cloud to us 10 years ago. We can open out laptops, cell phones, iPods, etc. and have the world right there. It's really unbelievable. Kevin said that "it's amazing and we're not amazed", and I have to agree. I know that I personally never really think about how incredible this is.
I am able to manage my life all by clicking on a link. This also struck me as a concern. Kevin made three points and the one that I focused on the most was "co-dependency". We are co-dependent on our clouds. When I think of co-dependent I do not think of it in a positive light. We are what make up The Cloud and the web. Doesn't that scare you? We're becoming one and soon will rely solely on the cyberworld. We don't even have to remember things and we lack responsibility because we know "we'll just Google it". I know that it's true that "we are going to be the machine", but I don't know if I'm ready to face that reality...
The fear is not that we make the web, it's when it makes us. I really think though, it really isn't a co-dependency since it is not a conscious entity... yet, and that it only benefits people. If you know how people are, there would be those who would exploit it. If we are to allow ourselves to be taken in by the machine in turn it makes sense that the machine should be taken in by us. If that convergence happens, only the conscious(humans) half would have a genuine interest to protect itself and the machine since we will have a certain level of dependency on it. That sounds like a lot of work for us. Being also scared of what the machine might be like since the only comfort I find is in hoping that the convergence would have the machine protecting us and we protect the machine.
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