Quotes from Kevin Kelly

Existence, it seems, is chiefly maintenance.

The more unlikely the field, the more powerful adding AI will be.

Every idea that is made real (technology) enlarges the space we have to construct our lives.

It's an upgrade arms race.

We keep inventing new things that make new longings, new holes that must be filled.

We are different from our animal ancestors in that we are not content to merely survive, but have been incredibly busy making up new itches that we have to scratch, creating new desires we've never had before. This discontent is the trigger for our ingenuity and growth.

So much more of our routines and infrastructure remains to be liquefied

The power of self-replication is now found in four fields of high technology: geno, robo, info, and nano.

In the universal library, no book will be an island. It's all connected.

Show me your calendar and I will tell you your priorities. Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you where you're going.

Po co mielibyÅ›my posiada?, skoro takÄ… samÄ… u?yteczno?? w czasie rzeczywistym zyskujemy dziÄ™ki wynajmowi, leasingowi, licencjonowaniu i dzieleniu siÄ™. Tak czy siak, nasze ?ycie przyspiesza, a jedynÄ… adekwatnÄ… prÄ™dkoÅ›ciÄ… jest natychmiastowo??. Tempem przyszÅ'oÅ›ci bÄ™dzie szybko?? poruszania siÄ™ elektronów.

Propaganda is less effective in a world of screens, because while misinformation travels as fast as electrons, corrections do too.

When people maximize their set of talents, they shine because no one can do what they do. People fully inhabiting their unique mixture of skills are inimitable

How many geniuses at the level of Bach and Van Gogh died before the needed technologies were available for their talents to take root?

We don't need to be blind to this continuous process. The rate of change in recent times has been unprecedented, which caught us off guard. But now we know: We are, and will remain, perpetual newbies. We need to believe in improbable things more often. Everything is in flux, and the new forms will be an uncomfortable remix of the old. With effort and imagination we can learn to discern what's ahead more clearly, without blinders.

I feel a deep connection to the primeval. I feel like an ancient hunter-gatherer who owns nothing as he wends his way through the complexities of nature, conjuring up a tool just in time for its use and then leaving it behind as he moves on. It is the farmer who needs a barn for his accumulation. The digital native is free to race ahead and explore the unknown. Accessing rather than owning keeps me agile and fresh, ready for whatever is next.

In the intangible digital realm, nothing is static or fixed. Everything is becoming. Upon this relentless change all the disruptions of modernity ride.

In the coming 30 years, anything that is not intensely interactive will be considered broken.

The pseudo- and parasciences are nothing less, in fact, than small pools of knowledge that are not connected to the large network of science. They are valid only in their own network.)

To demand that artificial intelligence be humanlike is the same flawed logic as demanding that artificial flying be birdlike, with flapping wings. Robots, too, will think different. Consider

W Å›wiecie dziaÅ'ajÄ…cym z szybkoÅ›ciÄ… Internetu ciÄ…gnÄ…ca siÄ™ przez wiek prawna blokada jest powa?nym uszczerbkiem dla innowacji i kreatywnoÅ›ci. To prze?ytek z poprzedniej epoki budowlanej w oparciu o atomy. CaÅ'a globalna gospodarka wycofuje siÄ™ z tego co materialne i zmierza w stronÄ™ niematerialnych bitów. Odchodzi od posiadania na rzecz zapewniania dostÄ™pu.

Greater personalization requires greater transparency. Absolute personalization (vanity) requires absolute transparency (no privacy). If I prefer to remain private and opaque to potential friends and institutions, then I must accept I will be treated generically, without regard to my specific particulars. I'll be an average number.

The greatest benefit of the arrival of artificial intelligence is that AIs will help define humanity. We need AIs to tell us who we are.

This bottom-up overturning was also not in anyone's 20-year vision. No web phenomenon has been more confounding