“Nearly every aspect of modern civilization has been flattening down except one: money. Minting money is one of the last jobs left for a central government that most political parties agree is legitimate. It takes a central bank to battle… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share
“When copies are free, you need to sell things that cannot be copied. Well, what can’t be copied? Trust, for instance.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“We have no certainty we’ll contact extraterrestrial beings from one of the billion earthlike planets in the sky in the next 200 years, but we have almost 100 percent certainty that we’ll manufacture an alien intelligence by then. When we face these synthetic aliens, we’ll encounter the same benefits and challenges that we expect from contact with ET. They will… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“Our most important mechanical inventions are not machines that do what humans do better, but machines that can do things we can’t do at… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“In the universal library, no book will be an island. It’s all connected.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
