Kevin Kelly Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

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  Technology, Organs, Humans

  Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.268, Penguin

• Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.

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  Technology, Born

  Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.235, Penguin

• 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.

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  Technology, Phones, Cells

• What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Winning

• Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.

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  Technology

• 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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  Children, Technology, Self

  Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.215, Penguin

• 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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  Technology, Machines, Life Is

  Kevin Kelly (1995). “Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World”, p.165, Basic Books

• Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.

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  Technology, Minimum, Amount

• Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

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  Technology, Self, Firsts

• Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on

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  Future, Technology, Vision

• Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y's who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.

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  Technology, Media, Years

• 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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  Technology, Opportunity, Ubiquity

  Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.244, Penguin

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

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  Technology, Ideas, Memes

  Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.268, Penguin

• Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

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  Technology, Mind, Usefulness

• The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with increasing specialization. Minds are the ideal way to express complexity, energy density, increasing specialization, expanding diversity -- all in one system. Mindedness is what evolution produces. Mindedness is what technology wants, too.

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  Technology, Diversity, Mind

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