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From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives
Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an optimistic ro ...more
Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an optimistic ro ...more
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Published June 7th 2016 by Viking
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Part I - The Inspiring Part
While I have mixed opinions of many of the ideas in The Inevitable, this particular paragraph stuck out as insightful and, for anyone interested in building products, potentially inspirational for some good ideas.
"Three generations ago, many a tinkerer struck it rich by taking a tool and making an electric version. Take a manual pump; electrify it. Find a hand-wringer washer; electrify it. The entrepreneurs didn't need to generate the electricity; they bought it from t ...more
While I have mixed opinions of many of the ideas in The Inevitable, this particular paragraph stuck out as insightful and, for anyone interested in building products, potentially inspirational for some good ideas.
"Three generations ago, many a tinkerer struck it rich by taking a tool and making an electric version. Take a manual pump; electrify it. Find a hand-wringer washer; electrify it. The entrepreneurs didn't need to generate the electricity; they bought it from t ...more
Aug 07, 2016
Goran rated it
it was ok
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Speaking as a regular reader at KK's Technium, this book is ok. It might blow my mom's mind, but many ideas are better developed on the blog, where the bits of geekery are not flattened out for the mythical average reader; too much reads like jingoistic futurist rambling, using very assured future tense with wild projections ignoring the social context and environmental debt we'll have to pay; and too much feels like padding. Take this paragraph (please, I don't need it):
...in order to run in r...more
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Charles Franklin rated it
it was amazing
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This book both freaked me out and intrigued me because it showcased a future that blew my mind unlike any other book has before. Kevin Kelly presents a view of the future that is overly optimistic (despite my secret fear that robots will take all of our jobs and that every move will be tracked by a government agency that wants to control us). Kelly says that we shouldn't fight against the future, rather we should embrace. Yes, there will be more tracking. There will be more upgrades of the stuff ...more
Depois de ler o What Technology Wants, qualquer coisa que o Kevin Kelly escrever, é leitura obrigatória para mim. Bastante coisa óbvia entre as tendências inevitáveis, justamente porque são inevitáveis, mas os desdobramentos futuros que ele dá são muito bons. Não mexeu com minha cabeça como o livro anterior mexeu, mas talvez porque eu jé esteja mais interado, mas muito bom de qualquer forma.
As noções de conexões, relacionamentos pessoais facilitados pela tecnologia e principalmente de uso ubíqu ...more
As noções de conexões, relacionamentos pessoais facilitados pela tecnologia e principalmente de uso ubíqu ...more
Dec 17, 2016
Otis Chandler rated it
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Kevin Kelly, who is a Wired co-founder, lays out technological trends that are "inevitable". Like too many nonfiction books, I found a few chapters to be worth reading, and a few not to be. I enjoyed the sections on AI and books. And sometimes just zooming out to get bigger perspective is engaging, which was the case for me in the sections on VR/AR and tracking. Much of the rest of the book seemed geared for people less technically savvy, which was my only complaint as it really drew the book ou Pumps Pointed Kitten Court Brown ELASHE Heels Shoes Stiletto 2 6 5cm Women Classic Toe Python qaxxtwRI
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Summary:
Kelly introduces the technological forces he believes will shape the future. These are;
AI/artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, robotics, the scalable cloud, virtual and augmented reality, omnipresent screens, quantified-self technologies, and social media.
Rather than using the headers I have used above, Kelly is taking outset in what impact these technologies will have. For the non-techie, that might provide a look into certain possibilities in the nea ...more
Apr 07, 2018
Oleksandr Golovatyi rated it
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Incredibly interesting book about the main directions of development of our civilization:
1) Becoming: Moving from fixed products to always upgrading services and subscriptions
2) Cognifying: Making everything much smarter using cheap powerful AI that we get from the cloud
3) Flowing: Depending on unstoppable streams in real-time for everything
4) Screening: Turning all surfaces into screens
5) Accessing: Shifting society from one where we own assets, to one where instead we will have access to servi ...more
1) Becoming: Moving from fixed products to always upgrading services and subscriptions
2) Cognifying: Making everything much smarter using cheap powerful AI that we get from the cloud
3) Flowing: Depending on unstoppable streams in real-time for everything
4) Screening: Turning all surfaces into screens
5) Accessing: Shifting society from one where we own assets, to one where instead we will have access to servi ...more
(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.)
It was a fascinating experience to read Kevin Kelly's The Inevitable right after tackling Nicholas Carr's Utopia is Creepy , an experience that teaches a lot about why so many other tech writers come and go with the same blazingly fast trendiness of teenage pop singers, while Kelly has been around since l ...more
It was a fascinating experience to read Kevin Kelly's The Inevitable right after tackling Nicholas Carr's Utopia is Creepy , an experience that teaches a lot about why so many other tech writers come and go with the same blazingly fast trendiness of teenage pop singers, while Kelly has been around since l ...more
I’m growing increasingly skeptical about the utility of William Gibson’s frequently quoted observation (quoted again in The Inevitable itself) that “the future is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed.” Distribution speed is technological too. The “leveling” nature of the very technologies we’re discussing means that it’s increasingly difficult for anyone to gain a better vantage than anyone else. A more apt observation of Gibson’s (made also by other commentators) is that science ficti ...more
Okay, I've been following Kelly for decades, since the Whole Earth Review and his tenure at Wired. So maybe his optimism has worn thin by now. Or maybe its because I'm older.
But color me skeptical about gee-whiz technology. After seeing some high-profile algorithmic flops -- like the 2008 crash, driven by computer investment portfolio algorithms. Or Facebook showing fake news because people hit "like" a lot, despite knowing that its fake. Or how 'smart' policing using computer algorithms, desig ...more
But color me skeptical about gee-whiz technology. After seeing some high-profile algorithmic flops -- like the 2008 crash, driven by computer investment portfolio algorithms. Or Facebook showing fake news because people hit "like" a lot, despite knowing that its fake. Or how 'smart' policing using computer algorithms, desig ...more
Jun 09, 2016
Kathrin Passig rated it
really liked it
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Ich habe mich oft geärgert und oft gefreut. Die Grundidee ist überzeugend, in den Details war es mir zu religiös-schwärmerisch. Die Zukunftsvisionen "So wird mein Tag in zwanzig Jahren aussehen" fand ich naiv, privilegienblind und überwiegend peinlich, bin aber froh, dass er sich getraut hat, sie aufzuschreiben, damit wir in zwanzig Jahren vergleichen können. Am interessantesten fand ich die Stellen, wo er darüber berichtet, wie sich sein eigenes Arbeitsleben in den letzten dreißig Jahren veränd ...more
Oct 22, 2017
Stephen Heiner rated it
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About halfway through the book I was bored. Not because the issues that Kelly discusses are unimportant to me, but because he delivers it in the one-note cadence implied by his title: The Inevitable. The only true inevitable was that I would finish the book so as to be prepared for the discussion with my fellows at the book club, not because I felt that he had a particularly relevant work, and 300 pages later, I still feel the way I do: Kelly falls far short.
I believe that we as humans are imper ...more
I believe that we as humans are imper ...more
Yes!
What does the future look like? It looks more amazing than I could have imagined. Kevin Kelly outlines what AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality) will look like in the next 30 years. He wrote this book before Pokemon Go came out. I have been obsessed with catching all the Pokemon and evolving the ones I have. Just having played this one AR game, I can see how AR and VR games will take over the world. So fun! Kelly also looked at the impact of VR in the home.
When talking about job ...more
What does the future look like? It looks more amazing than I could have imagined. Kevin Kelly outlines what AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality) will look like in the next 30 years. He wrote this book before Pokemon Go came out. I have been obsessed with catching all the Pokemon and evolving the ones I have. Just having played this one AR game, I can see how AR and VR games will take over the world. So fun! Kelly also looked at the impact of VR in the home.
When talking about job ...more
This book is so insightful that I wish this book was compulsory for people pursuing technology & computer science degrees. The book Inevitable is divided into sections and each section is a gerund or force that is shaping us as a result of the technological advances. I want to point out how he is not only talking about technology but also the philosophy behind and how the gradual change is realized through current examples and glimpses of potential future adaptations.
Regarding technology, I ...more
Regarding technology, I ...more
Apr 21, 2016
Jay rated it
really liked it
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I really enjoyed Kevin Kelly’s predictions for the future in this book. He has that kind of over-the-top, goofy way to point things out – you can just tell he loves telling how he thinks things will be. I have a nephew that gets that excited talking about drifting, and he comes across about the same as Kelly. The best part of this book is when Kelly decides the way to express his idea of the future is to tell a story. He does this a few times throughout the book (more would have been better), an ...more
Audible. I love this book. Whether or not KK's predictions about the future are on point, the content and story telling of this book stretched my mind. I've never read a book by a 'futurist' before so this book was a real treat for me, as it also applies to the work I do as a product manager.
The book left me feeling in awe about what the future holds--it also left me feeling a bit uneasy, as I scrambled to internalize this vision of the future. It even stressed me out a bit, with the notions th ...more
The book left me feeling in awe about what the future holds--it also left me feeling a bit uneasy, as I scrambled to internalize this vision of the future. It even stressed me out a bit, with the notions th ...more
Aug 17, 2018
Kent Winward rated it
it was amazing
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We are all newbies now. Kelly's approach to technology is an analysis of trends. The greatest benefit of the book is that Kelly's thoughts are a fantastic jumping off point for musing on your own experience with technology. Considering my life span has covered technological advances that are so mind-numbingly rapid, being able to think of them as trends has the added benefit of making me not feel like an overwhelmed, curmudgeonly Luddite. Kelly's section on books was especially thought provoking ...more
INTERESTING AND INSIGHTFUL. INFORMATIVE AND DELIGHTFUL.
“We are moving away from the world of fixed nouns and toward a world of fluid verbs.” (p. 11)
“In the intangible digital realm, nothing is static or fixed. Everything is becoming.” (p. 12)
Although parts left me puzzling: what the heck was what I just read all about?, Kevin Kelly’s deeply insightful book, THE INEVITABLE: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, is a futurist's delight. Kelly offers cogent and reas ...more
“We are moving away from the world of fixed nouns and toward a world of fluid verbs.” (p. 11)
“In the intangible digital realm, nothing is static or fixed. Everything is becoming.” (p. 12)
Although parts left me puzzling: what the heck was what I just read all about?, Kevin Kelly’s deeply insightful book, THE INEVITABLE: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, is a futurist's delight. Kelly offers cogent and reas ...more
Jun 18, 2016
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39th book for 2016.
Wow. The Silicon Valley tech-heads live in a happy-happy future world; a world where we are all connected, all the time, in vast Hive Mind; where all our most private thoughts are given up to the corporate cloud; where our most basic consumptive desires are anticipated by ubiquitous AIs.
In Kelly's take on things, there is no point questioning the future. No point in dwelling on critical questions of autonomy or ecological stewardship, as our fluid, connected, constantly dist ...more
Wow. The Silicon Valley tech-heads live in a happy-happy future world; a world where we are all connected, all the time, in vast Hive Mind; where all our most private thoughts are given up to the corporate cloud; where our most basic consumptive desires are anticipated by ubiquitous AIs.
In Kelly's take on things, there is no point questioning the future. No point in dwelling on critical questions of autonomy or ecological stewardship, as our fluid, connected, constantly dist ...more
Out of our Minds! Most fascinating, disturbing, and awe-inspiring of the Inevitable forces Kevin Kelly highlights is the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR). Our future will part from all past as it will no longer be crafted only with our own hands, tools, and the machines that we once “controlled” with explicit instruction sets. Increasingly the machines are “teaching” themselves from vast data collection creating self-learning intelligences. We already use this ...more
Jun 07, 2016
André Spiegel rated it
really liked it
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Automation is not a race against the machine, but with it. You can no longer choose to update your software, or choose not to, since software has become like an organism that is in constant flux. And the internet with its billions of minds connected to it is a kind of super-organism in a dream-like state.
Those were some of the strongest, most brilliant ideas I found in the book. And among the weakest: When Kelly sketches the unfolding of a typical day in the future, driving past buildings which ...more
Those were some of the strongest, most brilliant ideas I found in the book. And among the weakest: When Kelly sketches the unfolding of a typical day in the future, driving past buildings which ...more
Jun 09, 2016
Lucas Carlson rated it
it was amazing
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The most important book of 2016
Culturally we used to be much more excited about the future. We watched the Jetsons and Back to the Future with giddy anticipation. But somewhere along the way, we started getting scared. The predominant emotion towards the long term future now is fear. Dystopia. How bad things will get. There are very few thinkers giving us a more realistic and balanced glance into the future. This book does just that. Without the lingering taste of fear and dystopia. And without ...more
Culturally we used to be much more excited about the future. We watched the Jetsons and Back to the Future with giddy anticipation. But somewhere along the way, we started getting scared. The predominant emotion towards the long term future now is fear. Dystopia. How bad things will get. There are very few thinkers giving us a more realistic and balanced glance into the future. This book does just that. Without the lingering taste of fear and dystopia. And without ...more
Feb 01, 2017
Pavel Annenkov rated it
it was amazing
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Отличная книга от основателя и главреда WIRED. Человек, который варится в новых технологиях уже 30 лет, знает о чем пишет. Рекомендую всем для понимания и выявления новых трендов в бизнесе.
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Book was interesting but could have been a lot more succinct. This was a buddy read with BP and it was a bad sign that we barely spent any time discussing it.
I fully recognize the irony of reading this book in a print format which meant I had to type up the notes below!
How we will change how we relate to the internet:
"The web will more and more resemble a presence that you relate to rather than a place -- the famous cyberspace of the 1980s -- that you journey to. It will be a low-level constant ...more
I fully recognize the irony of reading this book in a print format which meant I had to type up the notes below!
How we will change how we relate to the internet:
"The web will more and more resemble a presence that you relate to rather than a place -- the famous cyberspace of the 1980s -- that you journey to. It will be a low-level constant ...more
Overall, I enjoyed reading Kevin Kelly's vision of our future. And he's right about many things, including driverless cars replacing truck drivers, and artificial intelligence. That's definitely inevitable, though it chills me when I think of something the late Stephen Hawking said, that AI will be the last thing man invents...and it's ironic that he's praising the very things that may just be our downfall. Technology got Trump elected.
In the chapter "Flowing," he states "soon you'll be able to ...more
In the chapter "Flowing," he states "soon you'll be able to ...more
Very hard for me to understand the hype around this mediocre book.
A few good insights, sure. Some useful food for thought, I concede. The question about future trends is a fundamental one to talk about. But the book is mediocre in the way it has been threaded together and researched. There is virtually little background to make the case for why these trends should continue onto the future, what is the hard evidence (or at least convincing evidence) for why these trends and not other should show ...more
A few good insights, sure. Some useful food for thought, I concede. The question about future trends is a fundamental one to talk about. But the book is mediocre in the way it has been threaded together and researched. There is virtually little background to make the case for why these trends should continue onto the future, what is the hard evidence (or at least convincing evidence) for why these trends and not other should show ...more
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Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor from its inception until 1999. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets half a million unique visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hack
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