Technology futures
The Inevitable
Kevin Kelly
Technology evolves faster than social norms; durable responses focus on shaping processes instead of pretending change can be frozen.
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We are morphing so fast that our ability to invent new things outpaces the rate we can civilize them.
Banning the inevitable usually backfires. Prohibition is at best temporary, and in the long run counterproductive.
Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.
Get the ongoing process right and it will keep generating ongoing benefits. In our new era, processes trump products.