Kevin Kelly: AI dreamin’
Such stuff as dreams are made on I have a proto-theory: That our brains tend to produce dreams at all times, and that during waking… Read More »Kevin Kelly: AI dreamin’
Such stuff as dreams are made on I have a proto-theory: That our brains tend to produce dreams at all times, and that during waking… Read More »Kevin Kelly: AI dreamin’
Software Eats the World means… … that any product or service in any field that can become a software product will become a software product.… Read More »Technology (20): Software Eats the World (again)
This is a crossover post with the Literacy as Technology thread – I’ll weave some of these ideas in there in the coming days. Kevin… Read More »Technology (19): Kevin Kelly on technological transitions as informational revolutions
… for me, the only real case, or the only real evidence for what a world without technology looks like is the past and the… Read More »Technology (14): Only Forward? Kevin Kelly on tech and cities as possibility factories
Writing as Infant Technology … the thing about new technologies… is that it takes several generations for us to decide what they’re good for. They’re… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (2): Half-baked Beginnings
This extract is from one of the best interviews with Kevin Kelly I’ve heard, on David Perell’s The North Star podcast. It covers a lot… Read More »Technology (8): Kevin Kelly on finding jobs for infant technologies
No one can escape the transforming fire of machines. Kevin Kelly – New Rules for the New Economy Not all technologies are created equal. Most… Read More »Technology (4): General Purpose Technologies
A history of augmentation Wikipedia has a nice, roughly chronological list of early technologies. It seems that weapons, cooking and languages were the trio that… Read More »Technology (3): A history of augmentation
… technology predated our humanness… The strategy of bending the environment to use as if it were part of one’s own body is a half-billion-year-old… Read More »Technology (2): Artifice-ial Beings
My working definition of technology is: anything useful made by a mind. Kevin Kelly – Technology’s Epic Story (TED talk) What technology isn’t Technology isn’t (just)… Read More »Technology (1): Second Nature