A WORTHY ESCAPE FROM THE SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING

It’s 08/08/08 and a big worldwide event starts tonight. Our original idea was to bring you some clever, funny or just plain good commercials and ads from Olympic sponsors that celebrate their involvement. We looked around and found nothing. There’s a few nice Adidas ones from about a year ago, but the recent crop of Olympic ads have been a little disappointing.

As an alternative here is something to watch during the synchronized swimming heats. It’s a bit long, but so are those heats.

It features Kevin Kelly, who is a very clever man. This highly entertaining and informative presentation by Kelly looks at the development of the internet, which he points out is only 5,000 days old and he gives his predictions for the next 5,000 days.

Take a look here: Kevin Kelly’s presentation