What Kevin Kelly thinks about energy
Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Kevin Kelly has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe supercomputer inside our own skull runs on about 25 watts, which hints that the minimum energy needed for intelligence might be small - and that the giant, controversial AI compute centers we're building now may turn out to be a temporary blip rather than a permanent feature.
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