257 Quotes by Kevin Kelly

Answers become cheap and questions become valuable – the inverse of the situation now.

In fact, the business plans of the next 10,000 startups are easy to forecast: Take X and add AI. Find something that can be made better by adding online smartness to it. An.

Our appetite for the instant is insatiable. The cost of real-time engagement requires massive coordination and degrees of collaboration that were unthinkable a few years ago.

Death is the only teacher in evolution.

Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.

Metadata is the new wealth.

Even a very tiny amount of useful intelligence embedded into an existing process boosts its effectiveness to a whole other level.

The web holds about a trillion pages. The human brain holds about a hundred billion neurons. Each biological neuron sprouts synaptic links to thousands of other neurons, while each web page on average links to 60 other pages. That adds up to a trillion “synapses” between the static pages on the web. The human brain has about 100 times that number of links – but brains are not doubling in size every few years. The global machine is.

At the rate AI technology is improving, a kid born today will rarely need to see a doctor to get a diagnosis by the time they are an adult.” Medicine.