Kevin Kelly Quotes

The perfect kind of art
to display in your home
are odd pieces
that a child is unlikely to forget.

Screens provoke action instead of persuasion. Propaganda is less effective in a world of screens, because while misinformation travels as fast as electrons, corrections do too. Wikipedia works so well because it removes an error in a single click, making it easier to eliminate a falsehood than to post a falsehood in the first place.

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

Great Books of the Western World.

Now we get angry if the network is slow, but before, when we were innocent, we had no thoughts of the network at all.

The nature of an innovation is that is 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.

At my “office” I wear an AR visor on my forehead. The visor is a curved band about hand width wide that is held a few inches away from my eyes for extra comfort during daylong use. The powerful visor throws up virtual screens all around me. I have about 12 virtual screens of all sizes and large data sets I can wrestle with my hands. The visor provides enough resolution and speed that most of my day I am communicating with virtual colleagues. But I see them in a real room, so I am fully present in reality as well. Their photorealistic 3-D avatar captures their life-size likeness accurately. My coworkers and I usually sit at a virtual table in a real room while we work independently, but we can walk around each other’s avatar. We converse and overhear each other just as if we are in the same room. It is so convenient to pop up an avatar that even if my real coworker is on the other side of the real room, we’ll just meet in the AR rather than walk across the gap.

Our existence here, he says, is a case of “not we the accidental but we the expected.” Mathematician Manfred Eigen wrote in 1971, “The evolution of life, if it is based on a derivable physical principle, must be considered an inevitable process.

In the bowels of the flush toilet we see the archetype for all autonomous mechanical creatures

W świecie działającym z szybkością Internetu ciągnąca się przez wiek prawna blokada jest poważnym uszczerbkiem dla innowacji i kreatywności. To przeżytek z poprzedniej epoki budowlanej w oparciu o atomy.
Cała globalna gospodarka wycofuje się z tego co materialne i zmierza w stronę niematerialnych bitów. Odchodzi od posiadania na rzecz zapewniania dostępu.

You need teachers, parents
customers, fans, and friends because
they will see who you are becoming
before you will.

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

Endless Newbie is the new default for everyone, no matter your age or experience.

The visitor waiting for the demo stands in the center of an actual real nondescript waiting room. A pair of large dark goggles rest on a stool. The visitor dons the goggles and is immediately immersed into a virtual version of the same room she was standing in, with the same nondescript paneling and chairs. Not much is changed from her point of view. She can look around. The scene looks a little coarser through the goggles. But slowly the floor of the room begins to drop away, leaving the visitor standing on a plank that now floats over the receding floor 30 meters below. She is asked to walk out farther on the plank suspended high over a most realistic pit. The realism of the scene has been improved over the years so that by now the response of the visitor is very predictable. Either she cannot move her feet or she trembles as she inches forward, palms sweating.

The Sensory Substitution Vest takes audio from tiny microphones in the vest and translates those sound waves into a grid of vibrations that can be felt by a deaf person wearing it. Over a matter of months, the deaf person’s brain reconfigures itself to “hear” the vest vibrations as sound, so by wearing this interacting cloth, the deaf can hear.