Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly
technology machines life-is
Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become more organic, more biological, more like life, because life is the best technology for living.
top-down trying literature
But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
technological
Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.
simple way literature
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
innovation overwhelmed fringe
The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
predictions unbelievable believable
Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.
technology phones cells
All these computers, all these handhelds, all these cell phones, all these laptops, all these servers - what we're getting out of all these connections is we're getting one machine. ... We're constructing a single, global machine.
softball games
Softball isn't just a game it's away of life.
environment organisms
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
environment broads organisms
In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
lessons evolution study
It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.
future technology vision
Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on
top-down stable
Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
advance brought computers computing confronted control fact great personal power steer
The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.