Frasi di Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly è uno scrittore, fotografo e ambientalista statunitense. Studioso di cultura digitale e asiatica, è cofondatore della rivista Wired di cui è stato direttore. I suoi scritti sono apparsi su New York Times, Esquire, The Economist e altri importanti periodici.

Divenne noto soprattutto grazie al suo primo libro Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World pubblicato nel 1994. Questo libro fu uno dei testi che gli attori della celebre saga Matrix dovettero leggere obbligatoriamente per entrare nella logica del film.

Nel 1994, Wired ha vinto il premio National Magazine Award per l'Eccellenza complessiva del prodotto. Kelly ha anche diretto riviste quali "Whole Earth Review", "CoEvolution Quarterly", "Signal", e alcune delle ultime edizioni del Whole Earth Catalog. Con il fondatore di Whole Earth, Stewart Brand, Kelly ha partecipato alla creazione di WELL, un'importante comunità virtuale. Ha diretto anche la Point Foundation, sponsor della prima conferenza internazionale degli hacker nel 1984 .

Kelly è noto come partecipante e osservatore della cosiddetta "cybercultura", anche se il suo sguardo si spinge senza dubbio oltre i limiti ristretti della sottocultura attuale. Attualmente Kelly promuove un inventario di tutte le specie viventi, un progetto conosciuto anche come Linnaean enterprise. Il progetto All Species Inventory ha ricevuto un finanziamento di un milione di dollari, per un progetto sottoscritto da molti centri di studio della biologia è considerato un' "idea il cui tempo è maturo". L'obiettivo è di realizzare un catalogo sulla rete di tutte le specie esistenti in una sola generazione .

✵ 14. Agosto 1952
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Kevin Kelly: Frasi in inglese

“Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.”

Kevin Kelly libro What Technology Wants

Origine: What Technology Wants

“Because prices move inexorably towards the free, the best move in the network economy is to anticipate this cheapness.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“All items that can be copied, both tangible and intangible, adhere to the law of inverted pricing and become cheaper as they improve.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“In network economics, more brings more.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Any highly evolved form is beautiful.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“The more interconnected a technology is, the more opportunities it spawns for both use and misuse.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“The value of a network explodes as its membership increases, and then the value explosion sucks in yet more members, compounding the result.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“The future of machines is biology.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Productivity, however, is exactly the wrong thing to care about in the new economy.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“The apparent veil between the organic and the manufactured has crumpled to reveal that the two really are, and have always been, of one being.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Telling the future is what organisms are for.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“An ecosystem is more like a conference than a community -- indefinite, pluralistic, tolerant, and in constant flux.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“An event is not triggered by a chain of being, but by a field of causes spreading horizontally, like creeping tide.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“In the past, an innovationÕs momentum indicated significance. Now, in the network environment, where biological behaviour reigns, significance precedes momentum.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“In the network economy, producing and consuming fuse into a single verb: prosuming. Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“Everyday we see evidence of biological growth in technological systems. This is one of the marks of the network economy: that biology has taken root in technology. And this is one of the reasons why networks change everything.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“To achieve sustainable innovation you need to seek persistent disequilibrium. To seek persistent disequilibrium means that one must chase after disruption without succumbing to it, or retreating from it.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“In the network economy a firm's primary focus shifts from maximizing the firm«s value to maximizing the network's value.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“To prosper, feed the web first.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“Without some element of governance from the top, bottom-up control will freeze when options are many. Without some element of leadership, the many at the bottom will be paralysed with choices.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“It is not money the Great Asymmetry accrues, nor energy, nor stuff. The origin of economic wealth begins in opportunities.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Anything that can hold an electronic charge can hold a fiscal charge.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Privacy is a type of conversation. Firms should view privacy not as some inconvenient obsession of customers that must be snuck around but more as a way to cultivate a genuine relationship.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“If goods and services become more valuable as they become more plentiful, and if they become cheaper as they become valuable, then the natural extension of this logic says that the most valuable things of all should be those that are ubiquitous and free.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“In the coming era, doing the exactly right next thing is far more fruitful than doing the same thing twice.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“Every opportunity seized launches at least two new opportunities.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

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