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Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist
Technology has always been a double edged sword, bringing us longer and healthier life spans, freedom from physical and mental drudgery, and many new creative possibilities on the one hand, while introducing new and salient dangers on the other. However, the means and knowledge will soon exist in a routine college bioengineering lab (and already ex... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Each of these 12 continuous actions is an ongoing trend that shows all evidence of continuing for at least three more decades. I call these metatrends “inevitable” because they are rooted in the nature of technology, rather than in the nature of society.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
AI scientists cannot help this or themselves. Like all technologists, they put blind faith and total effort into achievement, damn the consequences. The excuse is that if I don't someone else will (and gain from it whether money, fame, etc.) so why not me?
But the internet is not the only-good/never-bad achievement these presumed in the 90's. Always... See more
But the internet is not the only-good/never-bad achievement these presumed in the 90's. Always... See more