257 Quotes by Kevin Kelly

The entire global economy is tipping away from the material and toward intangible bits. It is moving away from ownership and toward access. It is tilting away from the value of copies and toward the value of networks. It is headed for the inevitability of constant, relentless, and increasing remixing. The laws will be slow to follow, but they will follow.

I use “socialism” because technically it is the best word to indicate a range of technologies that rely on social interactions for their power.

Not only did we fail to imagine what the web would become, we still don’t see it today. We are oblivious to the miracle it has blossomed into. Twenty years after its birth the immense scope of the web is hard to fathom. The total number of web pages, including those that are dynamically created upon request, exceeds 60 trillion. That’s almost 10,000 pages per person alive. And this entire cornucopia has been created in less than 8,000 days.

How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don’t view their failures as failures – they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success.

What we want instead of conscious intelligence is artificial smartness. As AIs develop, we might have to engineer ways to prevent consciousness in them. Our most premium AI services will likely be advertised as consciousness-free. Nonhuman.

Long ago I learned that even the most inanimate things we know of – stone, iron columns, copper pipes, gravel roads, a piece of paper – won’t last very long without attention and fixing and the loan of additional order. Existence, it seems, is chiefly maintenance. What.

An organization’s intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

Massive tracking and total surveillance is here to stay.

A lack of responsibility unleashes the worst in us. There’s.