Quotes from "The Inevitable" By Kevin Kelley
Here are some quotes from the book "The Inevitable". Author Kevin Kelley talks about the 12 factors that are going to shape the world: Flowing, sharing, tracking, accessing, interacting, screening, remixing, filtering, Cognifying, questioning, and becoming.
We cannot expand ourself, and our collective self, without making holes in our heart.
A world without discomfort is utopia.
Protopia is a state of becoming, rather than a destination.
One study a few years ago found that only 40 percent of the web is commercially manufactured. The rest is fueled by duty or passion.
By 2026, Google's main product will not be search but AI.
AI is akin to building a rocket ship. You need a huge engine and a lot of fuel. The rocket engine is the learning algorithms but the fuel is the huge amounts of data we can feed to these algorithms.
The most important thing to know about thinking machines is that they will think different.
So we'll get this network of locally franchised factories, where most things will be made within five miles of where they are needed.
You'll be paid in the future based on how well you work with robots.
When you are engaged in this reading space, your brain works differently than when you are screening.
From the days of Sumerian clay tablets until now, humans have "published" at least 310 million books, 1.4 billion articles and essays, 180 million songs, 3.5 trillion images, 330,000 movies, 1 billion hours of videos, TV shows, and short films, and 60 trillion public web pages.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
The switch from "ownership that you purchase" to "access that you subscribe to" will be the key change in future.
Black Duck Open Hub, which tracks the open source industry, lists roughly 650,000 people working on more than half a million projects.
One study estimates that 60,000 person-years of work have poured into the release of Fedora Linux9.
No one is as smart as everyone.
In a world of abundance, the only scarcity is human attention.
The only things that are increasing in cost while everything else heads to zero are human experiences - which can not be copied.
In the coming 30 years, anything that is not intensely interactive will be considered broken.
If today's social media has taught us anything about ourselves as a species, it is that the human impulse to share overwhelms the human impulse for privacy.
Even the most angelic technology can be weaponized, and will be. Criminals are some of the most creative innovators in the world. And crap constitutes 80 percent of everything.
Thus, even though our knowledge is expanding exponentially, our questions are expanding exponentially faster.
Here are few quotes on questions:
- Pablo Picasso brilliantly anticipated "Computers are useless. They only give you answers".
- The best questions are not questions that lead to answers.
- A good question will be the sign of an educated mind.
- A good question may be the last job a machine will learn to do.
- A good question is what humans are for.
- Questioning is simply more powerful than answering.
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