257 Quotes by Kevin Kelly

A distributed, decentralized network is more a process than a thing. In the logic of the Net there is a shift from nouns to verbs.

Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on.

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.

Each page in a book will discover other pages and other books. Thus books will seep out of their bindings and weave themselves together into one large metabook, the universal library. The resulting collective intelligence of this synaptically connected library allows us to see things we can’t see in a single isolated book.

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented.

We are, and will remain, perpetual newbies. We.

Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it’s profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.

In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” Simon’s insight is often reduced to “In a world of abundance, the only scarcity is human attention.” Our.

Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y’s who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.