Kevin Kelly
Quotes
Life is a transforming flood that fills up empty containers and then spills out of them on its way to fill up more. The shape and number of vessels submerged by the flood doesn't make a bit of difference.
As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world.
Hereditary information does not exist independently of its embodiment.
The hardest lesson for humans to learn: that organic complexity will entail organic time.
We are all steering.
The great secret which life has kept from us is that once born, life is immortal. Once launched, it cannot be eradicated.
Dumb parts, properly constituted into a swarm, yield smart results.
Memory is a reenactment of perception, indistinguishable from the original act of knowing.
We should not be surprised that life, having subjugated the bulk of inert matter on Earth, would go on to subjugate technology, and bring it also under its reign of constant evolution.
Inconsistency is an inevitable trait of any self-sustaining system built up out of consistent parts.
Communication – which in the end is what the digital technology and media are all about – is not just a sector of the economy. Communication IS the economy.
Telling the future is what organisms are for.
