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💡 Interview with one of the smartest thinkers on tech
Kevin Kelly has done a lot in his life.
He co-founded Wired in the 1990s. Before that, he worked for the cult-classic Whole Earth Review. For several decades, he has been photographically documenting Asia and last year released a massive three-part photo book, Vanishing Asia. In addition, he has written several best-selling books on technology, including my favorite, The Inevitable. Some of the most influential essays in the tech world have been authored by him.
He also wrote the most-read article on Warp News, The Case for Optimism. It became a TED talk with over two million views.
With this background, he has gathered quite a bit of life wisdom. He shares 450 of these in his new book, Excellent Advice for Living.
I talked to him about the book, but also took the opportunity to ask his views on the recent AI debate: 🤖 Don't regulate AI based on fear of human extinction.
He also reveals his next project: Protopia – the hundred-year desirable future.
"I'm taking my own advice and trying to imagine a world, on this planet, that is full of all these technological inventions – and imagine all of this in a place that I want to live in. Not a scary, dystopian hell, but a place that we can't wait to get to."
I also asked him for advice. How should Warp News grow faster?
"Wrap it around people and their dreams."
Not bad advice at all. But in our case I guess we should warp it around people and their dreams.
📚 Kevin Kelly: Focus on the biggest opportunities, not the biggest problems
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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📚 Kevin Kelly: Focus on the biggest opportunities, not the biggest problems
We talk about some of the 450 advice in his new book, but also about his new project: Protopia - the hundred-year desirable future. And Kevin Kelly give advice for how Warp News should grow faster: "Wrap it around people and their dreams."
📽️ Walt Disney is my role model - he should be Bob Iger's too
Walt Disney broke new ground throughout his life. Disney today is a huge entertainment company, but hasn't broken new ground in a long time.
💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
🤖 Kevin Kelly: Don't regulate AI based on fear of human extinction
"Just being really smart doesn't mean you can trump and overcome the will to survive of eight billion people."
🦾 AI discovers superbug-killing antibiotics
AI has been used to discover a new antibiotic, named abaucin, that can kill Acinetobacter baumannii, a deadly superbug. If the progress of AI were to be halted or slowed down, we risk hindering such life-saving discoveries.
🤖 No, an AI drone has not refused to obey orders and killed a human
It was just a thought experiment on what could happen. It hasn't even happened in a simulation.
🎗️ Breast cancer detected by AI + doctors - new type of mammogram review
AI and doctors collaborate to find breast cancer, after a major scientific study that showed increased accuracy.
🔋 Homevolt: New battery for the home by Tibber and Polarium
"Energy storage is the key to unlocking the power of renewable energy," says Stefan Jansson, CEO and co-founder of Polarium.
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