The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with increasing specialization. Minds are the ideal way to express complexity, energy density, increasing specialization, expanding diversity -- all in one system. Mindedness is what evolution produces. Mindedness is what technology wants, too.
The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention. - Kevin Kelly
The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.
- Kevin Kelly
We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob. - Kevin Kelly
We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.
How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelud… - Kevin Kelly
How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelud…
Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works - Kevin Kelly
Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works
Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable. - Kevin Kelly
Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.
Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do. - Kevin Kelly
Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do.
Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing di… - Kevin Kelly
Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing di…
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. - Kevin Kelly
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.
What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinit… - Kevin Kelly
What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinit…
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