Technology will become more like nature – random, hive-like, chaotic … “There will be a point where we’ll find machines as beautiful, as interesting as a planet.”
Predictor: Kelly, Kevin
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for The Modesto Bee, Rusty Coats, interviews Kevin Kelly of Wired magazine. Coats writes: ”Kelly argues in his new book ‘Out of Control’ that the line between biology and technology will soon disappear. Just as biology has become more engineered, he said, technology will become more like nature – random, hive-like, chaotic. ‘Life is a technology, if viewed through the eyes of bio-engineer,’ Kelly said. ‘So there will be a point where we’ll find machines as beautiful, as interesting as a planet.'”
Biography:Kevin Kelly was the author of the book “Out of Control” and the first executive editor of the highly influential Wired magazine. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Human-Machine Interaction
Name of publication: Modesto Bee
Title, headline, chapter name: Info-Culture Technology: Savior or Destroyer of Society?
Quote Type: Partial quote
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