innovation 7
- Copyright law's purpose is to incentivize creation for public benefit, not to guarantee revenue streams.
- Financial constraints often drive the ingenuity that makes dreams achievable.
Kevin Kelly
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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What Kevin Kelly says most about
robotics 4
- Robots will not be able to beat the best human basketball players in a full game by 2040.
- General-purpose humanoid robots will end up less useful than many specialized robots.
agency 3
- We are moving from a world of fixed nouns to one of fluid verbs
- Faced with an inevitable technological future, we should prepare for it, not recoil
LLMs 3
- As AI models keep scaling up, the value of any single training source keeps shrinking.
- A neural network's latent space is closer to an uncopyrightable syntax than to copyrightable expression.
optimism 3
- It is the best time ever to begin; you are not late
- There has never been a better day to invent something