Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly
law way physics
The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.
inspirational life years
Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."
lying self years
A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead.
today tomorrow environment
The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.
systematic outcomes research
Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.
technology opportunity ubiquity
Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom Increasing mutualism Increasing beauty Increasing sentience Increasing structure Increasing evolvability
important willingness-to-learn critical
Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.
technology machines life-is
Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become more organic, more biological, more like life, because life is the best technology for living.
technology phones cells
All these computers, all these handhelds, all these cell phones, all these laptops, all these servers - what we're getting out of all these connections is we're getting one machine. ... We're constructing a single, global machine.
technology winning games
What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.
technology diversity mind
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with increasing specialization. Minds are the ideal way to express complexity, energy density, increasing specialization, expanding diversity -- all in one system. Mindedness is what evolution produces. Mindedness is what technology wants, too.
smart simple thinking
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
technology humans organs
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.
bank earning money
This is money in the bank earning interest, not bonds, not debt.