Kevin Kelly (editor) Quotes

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Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.

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The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

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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.

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Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

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The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen

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The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.

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There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

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Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.

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Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:
Increasing efficiency
Increasing opportunity
Increasing emergence
Increasing complexity
Increasing diversity
Increasing specialization
Increasing ubiquity
Increasing freedom
Increasing mutualism
Increasing beauty
Increasing sentience
Increasing structure
Increasing evolvability

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Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

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