This man Kevin Kelley had an interesting idea: “I’ve become very curious about the maps people have in their minds when they enter the internet. So I’ve been asking people to draw me a map of the internet as they see it. That’s all. More than 50 people of all ages and levels of expertise have mapped their geography of online.”  He had several people submit maps that they imagine when they think about the internet.  Kelley also has some interesting opinions on the internet itself which he describes as follows, “The internet is vast. Bigger than a city, bigger than a country, maybe as big as the universe. It’s expanding by the second. No one has seen its borders.  And the internet is intangible, like spirits and angels. The web is an immense ghost land of disembodied places. Who knows if you are even there, there.  Yet everyday we navigate through this ethereal realm for hours on end and return alive. We must have some map in our head.”  I found this description of the internet quite interesting, and ultimately pretty accurate. I know I myself have spent ages just surfing the web with no real intent.  The places we go must create some sort of network that shows the intricacy of the entire program.

I think that this project is really cool for finding everyone’s creative ideas.  Many people don’t realize how much creativity they have in them until they begin projects like this that allow them to explore their potential.  It’s also neat to see the different ways people approach things, from web diagrams to intricate works of art.  It’s a way to gain peoples’ perspectives as well as have an interesting and fun compilation of thoughts.

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