Quotes from Kevin Kelly

We are particularly susceptible to bias when we are hurting or desperate. An

Possession is not as important as it once was. Accessing is more important than ever. Pretend

Simple machines can be efficient, but complex adaptive machinery cannot be.

The real test of your character is not how much you deal with adversity — although that will teach you much. The real test is how you deal with power. The only cure for power is humility and the admission that your power comes from luck. The small person believes they are superior; the superior person knows they are lucky.

The greatest benefit of the arrival of artificial intelligence is that AIs will help define humanity. We

We might subscribe to the marginalia feed from someone we respect, so we get not only their reading list but their marginalia—highlights, notes, questions, musings. The

Software eats everything.

there are so many more ways to be a service than to be a product.

Every 12 months we produce 8 million new songs, 2 million new books, 16,000 new films, 30 billion blog posts, 182 billion tweets, 400,000 new products.

If you want a glimpse of what we humans do when the robots take our current jobs, look at experiences. That's where we'll spend our money (because they won't be free) and that's where we'll make our money. We'll

These startups try to exploit inefficiencies in novel ways.

You could, if so inclined, read more Greek texts in the original Greek than the most prestigious Greek nobleman of classical times.

These forces are trajectories, not destinies.

Even a very tiny amount of useful intelligence embedded into an existing process boosts its effectiveness to a whole other level.

We can't save it up or hoard it. We have to spend it second by second, in real time.

Coming out of the industrial age, when mass-produced goods outperformed anything you could make yourself, this sudden tilt toward consumer involvement is a surprise.

The glue that holds together institutions and processes as they undergo massive decentering is cheap, ubiquitous communication.

There is an asymmetry in the work needed to generate a good question versus the work needed to absorb an answer.

A good question may be the last job a machine will learn to do. A good question is what humans are for.

But the general trends of the products and services in 30 years are currently visible. Their basic forms are rooted in directions generated by emerging technologies now on their way to ubiquity. This wide, fast-moving system of technology bends the culture subtly, but steadily, so it amplifies the following forces: Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and then Beginning.

What we want instead of conscious intelligence is artificial smartness. As AIs develop, we might have to engineer ways to prevent consciousness in them. Our most premium AI services will likely be advertised as consciousness-free. Nonhuman

The new OS is neither the classic communism of centralized planning without private property nor the undiluted selfish chaos of a free market. Instead, it is an emerging design space in which decentralized public coordination can solve problems and create things that neither pure communism nor pure capitalism can.

Looking ahead, focus on direction rather than destinations.Maintain the right direction and you'll arrive at where you want to go.

If it were a nation, Facebook would be the largest country on the planet. Yet the entire economy of this largest country runs on labor that isn't paid. A