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

by Kevin Kelly

Just as your phone’s navigation directions through a city are improved by including previous days, weeks, and months of traffic patterns, so the web of 2050 will be informed by the context of the past.

Robots will do jobs we have been doing, and do them much better than we can. They will do jobs we can’t do at all. They will do jobs we never imagined even needed to be done. And they will help us discover new jobs for ourselves, new tasks that expand who we are. They will let us focus on becoming more human than we were. It is inevitable. Let the robots take our jobs, and let them help us dream up new work that matters.

The internet is less a creation dictated by economics than one dictated by sharing gifts.

The fears that technology makes us more uniform, more commoditized are incorrect.