Kevin Kelly Quotes

"Jeśli będę wyszukiwał własne e-maile (przechowywane w chmurze), żeby znaleźć, co powiedziałem (co często robię), czyli polegał na chmurze w kwestii mojej pamięci, pojawia się pytanie, gdzie kończy się moje "ja", a gdzie zaczyna chmura.
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Jeśli McLuhan ma rację, że narzędzia są przedłużeniem nas samych - koło to przedłużenie nogi, aparat to przedłużenie oka - to chmura jest przedłużeniem duszy. Albo ujmując to inaczej, przedłużeniem nas samych. W pewnym sensie nie jest to przedłużenie nas samych, które posiadamy, tylko takie, do którego mamy dostęp."

Dont bother fighting the old; just build the new.

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.

We are blind to this massive eruption of minds into the technium because humans have a chauvinistic bias against any kind of intelligence that does not precisely mirror our own.

Promptness is a sign of respect.

From the days of Sumerian clay tablets until now, humans have “published” at least 310 million books, 1.4 billion articles and essays, 180 million songs, 3.5 trillion images, 330,000 movies, 1 billion hours of videos, TV shows, and short films, and 60 trillion public web pages.

Rule of 7 in research: You can find out anything if you are willing to go seven levels. If the first source you ask doesn’t know ask them who you should ask next and so on down the line. If you are willing to go to the seventh source you’ll almost always get your answer.

the value of our attention has been remarkably stable over 20 years.

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.

Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once we invented the scientific method, we could immediately create thousands of other amazing things we could have never discovered any other way.

Most overnight successes — in fact, any significant successes — take at least 5 years. Budget your life accordingly.

neither dystopia nor utopia is our destination. Rather, technology is taking us to protopia. More accurately, we have already arrived in protopia.