Kevin Kelly Quotes
born 1952 United States
Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. Kelly is considered an expert in digital culture, and is said to have helped make technology part of popular culture.
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The technium is the way the universe has engineered its own self-awareness.
Urbanization is the advent of edge species.
The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abudance is human attention.
There's nothing more addictive than being a god.
The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.
As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world.
The hardest lesson for humans to learn: that organic complexity will entail organic time.
The work of managing a natural environment is inescapably a work of local knowledge.
One of the chief chores in the next economy is to restore the symmetry of knowledge.
As life evolves it unbinds from the inorganic and interacts more with the organic.
A good definition of a network is organic behaviour in a technological matrix.
Complete surrender to the bottom is not what embracing swarm power is about.
Life-as-it-could-be is a territory we can only study by first creating it.
The aim of swarm power is superior performance in a turbulent environment.
People will inhabit places, but increasingly the economy inhabits a space.
The central act of the coming era is to connect everything to everything.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kevin Kelly (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.