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Kevin Kelly – June 5, 2016

Kevin Kelly – June 5, 2016
  • Book – out of Control Became a hit in China for predicting the Behavior of the Internet
  • Silicon Valley – happened in part bc no non-competes in CA.
    • Also bc west coast was fast from DC, needed to create a new funding model – vc
  • All too much book – if it’s not visible, it’s not worth keeping. Clear clutter to show your best stuff.
  • Simplicity is overrated. Our lives are increasingly more complicated. Distracted scanning of info is appropriate response to the world around us.
  • Zen mantra – sit, sit, walk, walk, don’t waddle. Give attention to your focus. People, or events. Learn to be present.
  • His Book – the inevitable – the inevitable forces of the future.
    • Important skills: learning how to learn, and how tech learns.
  • Cars kill a million people a year. Self driving cars will kill, but at much smaller numbers.
    • Future thought: hacking cars to give a safety preference to the car passengers over pedestrians. Algorithm to save the car inhabitants at all costs.
  • “hire for attitude, and the skills will train.”
  • Finding what you’re good at is a life long project.
  • There’s such thing as discovering yourself. Only through long term experimentation will you find out.
  • VR today is good enough to improve, but  there are no future experts.
  • There is a ton to be invented to advance VR. This is the opportunity
  • The information revolution is about cognifying the things that the industrial revolution created.
  • Skynet is plausible but unlikely.
  • Any job defined by productivity or efficiency will be taken over by AI. From data entry to truck driving.
  • Augmented reality vs mixed reality. See magic leap.
  • The void – an arcade version of VR – suited up for haptic feedback. Tiny room that lets feel like you’re in a huge world.
    • The Internet of experiences. You don’t walk away from seeing things, you walk away with an experience.
  • Volumetric capture a perfect VR map of a person. Gives the true feeling of a person being there. Presence.
  • Don’t worry about: CRISPR, gmo’s, AI
  • Things to worry about – can you affect physical things with a virus? Cyber warfare.
  • It’s only AI before it exists.
  • AI vehicles don’t need to slow down to have an argument.
  • Daily practice to express gratitude.
  • KK.org