The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

by Kevin Kelly

We are morphing so fast that our ability to invent new things outpaces the rate we can civilize them.

Banning the inevitable usually backfires. Prohibition is at best temporary, and in the long run counterproductive.

We now appreciate that everything is mutable and undergoing change, even though much of this alteration is imperceptible.

At the center of every significant change in our lives today is a technology of some sort. Technology is humanity’s accelerant.

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

Get the ongoing process right and it will keep generating ongoing benefits. In our new era, processes trump products.

We are moving away from the world of fixed nouns and toward a world of fluid verbs.

we can get the most from the technologies when we “listen” to the direction the technologies lean, and bend our expectations, regulations, and products to these fundamental tendencies within that technology.

Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and then Beginning.