Quotes from Kevin Kelly

This is not a race against the machines. If we race against them, we lose. This is a race with the machines. You'll be paid in the future based on how well you work with robots. Ninety percent of your coworkers will be unseen machines.

When copies are free, you need to sell things that cannot be copied. Well, what can't be copied? Trust, for instance.

If today's social media has taught us anything about ourselves as a species, it is that the human impulse to share overwhelms the human impulse for privacy.

While anonymity can be used to protect heroes, it is far more commonly used as a way to escape responsibility.

The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.

The kind of intelligent book club discussion as now happens on the book sharing site Goodreads might follow the book itself and become more deeply embedded into the book via hyperlinks. So when a person cites a particular passage, a two-way link connects the comment to the passage and the passage to the comment. Even a minor good work could accumulate a wiki-like set of critical comments tightly bound to the actual text.

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

In fact, the business plans of the next 10,000 startups are easy to forecast: Take X and add AI. Find something that can be made better by adding online smartness to it. An

The link and the tag may be two of the most important inventions of the last 50 years. You

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

We are, and will remain, perpetual newbies. We

Editorship and expertise are like vitamins for the food. You don't need much of them, just a trace even for a large body. Too much will be toxic, or just flushed away. The

Since it is the last scarcity, wherever attention flows, money will follow.

It's possible that a not-so-smart person who can communicate well can do much better than a super-smart person who can't communicate well.That is good news because it is much easier to improve your communication skills than your intelligence.

Ironically, the best questions are not questions that lead to answers, because answers are on their way to becoming cheap and plentiful. A good question is worth a million good answers. A

If AI can help humans become better chess players, it stands to reason that it can help us become better pilots, better doctors, better judges, better teachers.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.