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Editor's Note: For the entire month of September, the year of Google's 10 year anniversary, they will be marking the occasion by asking their experts, "What's going to happen in the next ten years?" Since their philosophy is that the best way to predict the future is to invent it, their vision of the future of the web comes very much from the flavor of the Google Kool-Aid.
So Organic felt that this would be a good opportunity for us to respond to Google's vision of the future as they tell it, with our vision of the future.
The Future Of Online Video by Chad Hurley, CEO and Co-Founder, YouTube
When I threw this first article against the Organic crowd there wasn't much to disagree with:
"I think its one hundred percent accurate and I can see a future of microvlogging. Instead of talking about a great site you are seeing you take a picture, or waiting for your wife to get off the train you take a picture. Video makes new experiences more real and I can see it being imbedded in everything that we do. TV made the world smaller, well when I can connect with my friend around the world on my cell phone walking on 5th ave, well it will be even smaller then that."
St. John Oneil-Dunne
But there was something in this article that struck me more than the predictions and the theories, and it was this simple fact: "Today, 13 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, and we believe the volume will continue to grow exponentially."
Just let those numbers soak in. 13 hours. Every minute. That's almost 20,000 hours every day. That's almost 300,000 days worth of footage every year.
WE ARE SLOWING DOWN TIME.
In a second, in just a blink on this planet there are video cameras, microblogs, blogs, e-mails, facebook updates going out a speed greater than time itself. If you keep adding up year after year, your brain almost wants to explode thinking of the petabytes of data. Where are we going to store it? And how are we going to consume it?
What will the history books be like in 10 years, when there is more data and coverage than the time it actually took for history to happen?
Marta Strickland
Strategists & Planners
Comments (1)
Great reads on the videos and other, but social media is not new, it is just evolving into a more mainstream and accesible avenue of communication. An avenue that small and big business needs to take advantage of. And CNN use of Twitter is only the beginning, but with Twitter you are limited, other sites such as Rejaw.com allows more text/ which means a bit more info can given without so many tweets. and by the way i'm not one of the technologically hip youth as you put it, i'm of the baby boomer over 50 that says, "Older people tweet too, and not just for fun."
Posted on September 19, 2008 07:16