“high-profile tech companies) are earning only an average of $3 per hour of attention—” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“I use “socialism” because technically it is the best word to indicate a range of technologies that rely on social interactions for… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“The industrial age was driven by analog copies—exact and cheap. The information age is driven by digital copies—exact and free.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“The greatest benefit of the arrival of artificial intelligence is that AIs will help define humanity. We need AIs to tell us… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“Our appetite for the instant is insatiable. The cost of real-time engagement requires massive coordination and degrees of collaboration that were unthinkable… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
All these computers, all these handhelds, all these cell phones, all these laptops, all these servers - what we're getting out of… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“But the general trends of the products and services in 30 years are currently visible. Their basic forms are rooted in directions… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“The union of a zillion streams of information intermingling, flowing into each other, is what we call the cloud. Software flows from… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“As the old joke goes: “Software, free. User manual, $10,000.” But it’s no joke.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom… — 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… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“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… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
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
