Kevin Kelly – what is technology?
Not just shiny new stuff It was clear (at least to me) that technology was an extension of natural life, but in what ways was… Read More »Kevin Kelly – what is technology?
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Machine. Ecosystem. (6) – Kevin Kelly on the techium
Okay, so machines are simple, largely linear, and predictable, and systems are complex, adaptive and ‘dispositional’… but look a bit closer and the distinction gets… Read More »Machine. Ecosystem. (6) – Kevin Kelly on the techium
AI and us: Kevin Kelly on ‘centaurs’
In 1997 Watson’s precursor, IBM’s Deep Blue, beat the reigning chess grand master Garry Kasperov in a famous man-versus machine match. After machines repeated their… Read More »AI and us: Kevin Kelly on ‘centaurs’
Machine. Ecosystem. (2)
Yesterday’s post laid out several reasons benefits of understanding your organisation as a machine.* But many of the important parts of your organisation don’t behave… Read More »Machine. Ecosystem. (2)
Dreaming by day: Kevin Kelly on realists and fantasists
I one-hundred-percent agree with the idea that to be human is to be ‘tensioned’, to be in conflict in some ways between two conflicting ideas… Read More »Dreaming by day: Kevin Kelly on realists and fantasists
Bits for atoms
We’re repainting our house – this is one of the colours about to be mixed at our local hardware shop. A small snippet of the… Read More »Bits for atoms
The haves and the have-laters
Kevin Kelly’s take on how technological development plays into the future of poverty and inequality – and why he’s not worried about unequal access to… Read More »The haves and the have-laters
Technology marches towards the poorest
I recently listened to a talk given by Iqbal Quadir, founder of Grameenphone, at the Long Now Foundation in 2008: In the early nineties I… Read More »Technology marches towards the poorest
Computers marching towards us
Computers have been on a steady march toward us. At first, computers were housed in distant air-conditioned basements, then they moved to nearby small rooms,… Read More »Computers marching towards us
What if it was free?
What if your the thing you do could be free? If the cost of all your inputs dropped to nothing – what would you charge? If… Read More »What if it was free?