"To my immense surprise, I found that these high-tech computer networks were not deadening the souls of early users... tl.gd/fg6k92
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 23, 2012
"Online networks unleashed passions, compounded creativity, amplified generosity." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 23, 2012
"I continue to keep the cornucopia of technology at arm's length so that I can more easily remember who I am." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 23, 2012
"Our lives today are strung with a profound and constant tension between the virtues of more technology and the per... tl.gd/fg6poh
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 23, 2012
"The whole of technology had remained imperceptible to us for so long because we were distracted by its masquerade ... tl.gd/fg73b9
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 23, 2012
"Large systems of technology often behave like a very primitive organism. Networks, especially electronic networks,... tl.gd/fg75l1
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 23, 2012
"If a thousand lines of letters in UNIX qualifies as a technology (the computer code for a web page), then a thousa... tl.gd/fg7aoc
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 23, 2012
"The technium extends beyond shiny hardware to include culture, art, social institutions, and intellectual creations of all types." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 23, 2012
"The technium wants what we design it to want and what we try to direct it to do. But in addition to those drives, ... tl.gd/fg7l48
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 23, 2012
------------Kelly-----Ch 2 Inventing Ourselves--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 24, 2012
"The creation of language was the first singularity for humans. It changed everything." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 24, 2012
"A world without technology had enough to sustain survival but not enough to transcend it." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 24, 2012
"Society evolves in incremental doses; each rise in social organization throughout history was driven by an inserti... tl.gd/fgsgbi
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 24, 2012
"The clock divided an unbroken stream of time into measurable units, and once it had a face, time became a tyrant, ordering our lives."Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 24, 2012
------------Kelly--------Ch 3 History of the Seventh Kingdom---------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 25, 2012
"Our technological creations are great extrapolations of the bodies that our genes build." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 25, 2012
"If technology is an extension of humans, it is not an extension of our genes but of our minds. Technology is there... tl.gd/fhe2g5
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 25, 2012
"by far the greatest difference between the evolution of the born and the evolution of the made is that species of ... tl.gd/fhe3ip
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 25, 2012
-----------Kelly----------Ch 4 The Rise of Exotropy-------------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 25, 2012
"The history of the cosmos thus proceeds from unity to diversity." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 25, 2012
"Information and computation can't be the most complex immaterial entity there is, just the most complex we've discovered so far." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 25, 2012
----------Kelly--------Ch 5 Deep Progress---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 25, 2012
"King Henry's wealth—the entire treasure of England—could not have purchased an indoor flush toilet or air-conditio... tl.gd/fhfa9n
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 25, 2012
"Each new invention unleashes new power that can be concentrated, wielded asymmetrically, or corrupted, and therefo... tl.gd/fi2reu
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 26, 2012
"Progress is real, but so are its consequences." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 26, 2012
"It is easy to mistake progressivism as utopianism because where else does increasing and everlasting improvement p... tl.gd/fi3cec
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 26, 2012
-----------Kelly-------Ch 9 Choosing the Inevitable--------------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 31, 2012
"Humans are both master and slave to the technium, and our fate is to remain in this uncomfortable role. Therefore,... tl.gd/fl1p99
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 31, 2012
---------Kelly-------Ch 10 The Unabomber Was Right---------------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 31, 2012
"The divorce of the hands from the head puts a strain on the human psyche." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 31, 2012
"Our ability to impact has expanded beyond our ability to care. By turning our lives inside out with technological ... tl.gd/fl25q2
— anderscj (@anderscj) January 31, 2012
"Technology chips away at our human dignity, calling into question our role in the world and our own nature." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 1, 2012
"If the technium is an addiction, we can't solve this addiction by trying to change the technium." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 1, 2012
"If the technium is an addiction, we can't solve this addiction by trying to change the technium." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 1, 2012
"If the Amish had to generate all their own energy, grow all their clothing fibers, mine all metal, harvest and mil... tl.gd/fm8vb8
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 2, 2012
"Voluntary simplicity is a possibility, an option, a choice that one should experience for at least part of one's life." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 2, 2012
-------------Kelly-------Ch 12 Seeking Conviviality----------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 2, 2012
"the number of technologies to choose from so far exceeds our capacity to use them all that these days we define ou... tl.gd/fmhape
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 2, 2012
"Computer security experts claim that of the thousands of species of self-replicating worms and computer viruses in... tl.gd/fmt90t
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 3, 2012
"we should prefer a bad idea to no idea at all, because a bad idea can at least be reformed, while not thinking offers no hope." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 3, 2012
"The evolution of new technologies is inevitable; we can't stop it. But the character of each technology is up to us." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 3, 2012
--------Kelly---------Ch 13 Technology's Trajectories---------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 5, 2012
"It is true that too many choices may induce regret, but "no choice" is a far worse option." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 5, 2012
"Cultural differences that thrive without isolation (even if they were born out of it) will compound in value as th... tl.gd/fo1qse
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 5, 2012
"Technology does not want to remain utilitarian. It wants to become art, to be beautiful and 'useless.'" Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 6, 2012
"the coming AI will most likely not be confined in a stand-alone supercomputer but will be birthed in the superorga... tl.gd/fppcfc
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 8, 2012
"The evolution of knowledge began with relatively simple arrangements of information. The most simple organization ... tl.gd/fppsjg
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 8, 2012
"If what minds are good for is learning and adaptation, then learning how to learn will accelerate your learning." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 8, 2012
"The technium is an explosion of information, organization, complexity, diversity, sentience, beauty, and structure... tl.gd/fpq77q
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 8, 2012
"Choices without values yield little, this is true; but values without choices are equally dry. We need the full sp... tl.gd/fpqa3o
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 8, 2012
"Choices without values yield little, this is true; but values without choices are equally dry. We need the full sp... tl.gd/fpqa3o
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 8, 2012
"if we fail to unleash the possibilities for other people, we diminish them, and that is unforgivable." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 8, 2012
"Enlarging the scope of creativity for others, then, is an obligation." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 8, 2012
"There is a genius alive today, some Shakespeare of our time, whose masterworks society will never own because she ... tl.gd/fpqdn1
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 8, 2012
"God-as-Verb unleashes a set of rules that unfold into an infinite game, a game that continually loops back into itself." Kelly
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 8, 2012
"We are teaching children that every question has four possible answers":bit.ly/xxWwnP
— anderscj (@anderscj) February 8, 2012
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