BE THE MEDIA Contributor Kevin Kelly quoted in NY Times

An article in The New York Times entitled "The Web Time Forgot" quoted Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor and senior maverick of Wired magazine.

Kelly is also author of the very viral piece "One Thousand True Fans," which serves as the Foreword to BE THE MEDIA. 

The Times article, written by Alex Wright, discusses Paul Otlet, the Belgian man who sketched plans for his "réseau," or "network," in the 1930s.

Otlet's papers layed out a global network of computers that would enable people to peruse millions of related documents, images, audio and video files.

Users would even be able to send each other messages, share files, and congregate in online social networks. The system anticipated the hyperlinks of today's Web.

According to Kelly:

"This was a Steampunk version of hypertext," and "The hyperlink is one of the most underappreciated inventions of the last century. It will go down with radio in the pantheon of great inventions."

The article delves deeper into the details of Otlet's work and how it foreshadowed many of the features of today's Web.

Check out Kevin Kelly's Foreword
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