A prescient look at the technology that dominates our lives. I agreed with many of the points that Mr. Kelly outlines within the book. I'm not sure how old it is. So I'm also not sure how good his predictions were or have been at the same time. I disagree with a few of his points. One that people will not own anything and will enjoy it. The point didn't seem to be well explored and was more optimistic. He expounds positives without addressing any downsides that might result from this ongoing and emerging trend. While I can see many positives, I can also imagine many negatives that are already affecting us today. I'm also not sure how I feel about Mr. Kelly's opinion about privacy. He seemed all too happy to say that people will be willing in full-force to give up their privacy without any thought. Perhaps that's the case for very young children that grow up without any privacy. In a digital world, however, I think that a little more introspection would be worthwhile in this regard. There are, for example, younger people that don't want smartphones and don't want to be connected to social media at all. So I think it's a little bit premature to say that we will be a civilization that doesn't value privacy very much at all. I think that Mr. Kelly's book was perhaps in some ways, overly optimistic about the future, rather than exploring both the positive and negative of what he terms, 'the inevitable'.

The author talks about the various "functions" of the technologies and how we interact with each other to get a glimpse into the future.

This is a very enlightening book. I am following up with most of the book content through articles in my day-to-day news surfing. Yet concentrating each topic in a dedicated chapter, and debriefing about past, present and future (potential) of each topic, makes this book a very valuable one. My favorite chapter so far was the first, the one about artificial intelligence.

Este livro tem sido vendido como tecnológico-optimista, para mim devia ser catalogado como tecnológico-ridículo. 6 anos depois de ter publicado um dos livros mais interessantes sobre tecnologia, "What Technology Wants" (2010), Kelly conseguiu inverter totalmente o pólo para nos oferecer um mero remendo de textos de blog, feito de múltiplas divagações inconsequentes, distorções da realidade e ainda múltiplos erros. Isto não é ingenuidade, como alguns apontaram, isto é puro desleixo e acima de tudo alheamento do mundo, tanto da sua parte como de quem editou o livro. O resto da análise está no blog: https://virtual-illusion.blogspot.com...

İçinde bulunduğumuz teknolojik dönüşümü detaylı ve her kesimden insanın anlayabileceği şekilde kaleme almış Kevin Kelly. Büyük teknolojik dönüşümü duyuyor ve neler yaşandığını ve yaşanacağı görmek istiyorsanız mutlaka okuyun.

So, what does the future look like? One word: connected. According to Kevin Kelly, we’ll become a highly connected society. Everything will be shared, re-shared, and shared some more. Along with that, we’ll be tracked like criminals while on bail. Yes, we’ll need a lot of data to improve our health care and upgrade the AI tacking everything we do. But there is more! Virtual reality will probably replace real-time conversations as services are currently replace ownership. Our attention span will decrease even more. Tiny chips will be embedded in all of the products. We’ll question our existence even more. Though the author presents a very optimistic viewpoint for the future, there’s a lot that can go wrong. Robots taking over and smart AI bombarding the major cities. We’ll see. One thing is certain: tech is here to stay. It’s already an integral part of our lives. But that’s a good thing. There has never been a better day in the whole history of the world to invent something. Thanks to technology, today is the best time to start something. Read full summary: https://durmonski.com/book-summaries/...

the framing of the twelve forces is interesting, and the writing is solid and gripping. at times it felt repetitive or overly optimistic/ignored practicalities and economic models.