I enjoyed this article, particularly as someone who tried and failed to complete Kevin Kelly’s “The Inevitable” this year.
If the book had been written in 1996, it would have been cute. Unfortunately it was written/released in 2016; the level of naivety displayed was shocking. Page after page of techno-utopian stream-of-consciousness futurist masterbation, without so much as a fleeting thought given to social or political repercussions.
As a writer, he struck me as either a deeply cynical person, or as someone with no understanding of humanity at all.
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I enjoyed this article, particularly as someone who tried and failed to complete Kevin Kelly’s “The Inevitable” this year.
If the book had been written in 1996, it would have been cute. Unfortunately it was written/released in 2016; the level of naivety displayed was shocking. Page after page of techno-utopian stream-of-consciousness futurist masterbation, without so much as a fleeting thought given to social or political repercussions.
As a writer, he struck me as either a deeply cynical person, or as someone with no understanding of humanity at all.