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

by Kevin Kelly

the total global production information

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anonymity should never be eliminated completely, but it should be kept as close to zero as possible.

Privileged viewpoint?

Large quantities of something can transform the nature of those somethings.

What is happening to disrupt the ancient impossible/possible boundary? As far as I can tell, the impossible things happening now are in every case due to the emergence of a new level of organization that did not exist before.

It is not necessary that we invent some kind of autonomous global consciousness. It is only necessary that we connect everyone to everyone else—and

what is natural for a tribe of mildly connected humans will not be natural for a planet of intensely connected humans.

many of the impossible things we can expect will be impossibly bad.

Worldwide disruptions of our social fabric are in fact inevitable.

as individuals we behave differently in collectives. This has been true for humans for a long while, ever since we moved to cities and began building civilizations.

I cherish a good wasting of time as a necessary precondition for creativity.

we have not asked our biggest questions yet.

People didn’t know how valuable instant answers were until they had access to them.

Answers become cheap and questions become valuable—the

A good question is what humans are for.

By holos I include the collective intelligence of all humans combined with the collective behavior of all machines, plus the intelligence of nature, plus whatever behavior emerges from this whole.

These transistors can be thought of as the neurons in a vast brain.

Though not in any remotely accurate sense.

This big global system will not be utopia.

many phenomenon occur

phenomena