072: Kevin Kelly on “The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future”

In our first "regular" episode in a while, we are joined by Wired cofounder Kevin Kelly to discuss his new book "The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future." The book takes 12 trends in digital technology and speculates as to what results we might see in the future as digital technology, with its peculiar biases and tendencies, continues to grow into more fields. The resulting conversation was far reaching and varied, touching on the Internet as the world's largest copier and tracking machine, the difference between industrial monopolies and "natural" monopolies like Google and Facebook, the amount of privacy enjoyed by forager bands. Kevin is an internet pioneer with a long history of innovating on the web, and he's refreshingly honest about the things he got both right and wrong along the way.

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