His Socratic method of inquiry and development is wonderful. It used to annoy me. I used to think, This guy's an editor. But the more time I spend with Kevin, the more I realize that the way his mind wanders across things keeps us all on the edge. That is exciting, because communication is the basis of culture.
Culture is a process of communication among individuals and groups.
We are amplifying and enhancing the foundations of culture and society with this communications revolution. All the dynamic and revolutionary effects we are going to see will come from these tiny chips being used in a communications mode. Kevin Kelly believes that computers are over. All the changes that computation is going to cause in our society have already happened. Computers primarily sped up society by automating a lot of processes, which was a sufficient change, but that is all it was.