Kevin Kelly: Seeing the Future

Scarcity was often at the root of human “savage” behavior

Fame is a constraint against creativity. When you’re famous you’re not allowed to make mistakes (in all aspects of your life). Creativity requires one to try different things and fail

Text in books are fixed, permanent Books represent authority. Screens are fluid, dynamic, never finished (Wikipedia is a great example). There’s no authority to tell you the truth. You have to assemble your own truth

We need to be careful to not optimize everything to be efficient. Efficiency is for robots, humans are inefficient. “Every single thing that we really value as humans is terribly inefficient” Science, discovery, art, adventure are all inefficient

Imagine if Mozart was born before the invention of the piano. We have a moral obligation to develop new technologies to allow for everyone to express their genius.

If you ban technologies you’re not able to figure out how to steer them for our benefit. Social Media, is still in its infancy. We haven’t yet figured out how to use it properly

They decide to introduce a technology if they find that it strengthens their families and communities

Amish process to adopt new technologies: Few early adopters will use and test the technology. The rest of the community observes the effects on the early adopters