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Homo Sapiens and the Emergence of Technology

April 13, 2009 – 12:15 am

Kevin Kelly just knocks it out of the park with this brilliant essay on early man and “the world without technology.” Part of his forthcoming book on the origin and future of technology, he charts the beginning of tool-making and links the rise of language to the spread of humans around the world. To really [...]

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If we do not know them all

March 25, 2008 – 1:46 pm

[Image: via] Either we do know all the varieties of beings which people our planet, or we do not. If we do not know them all -— if Nature has still secrets in the deeps for us, nothing is more conformable to reason than to admit the existence of fishes, or cetaceans of other kinds, [...]

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Making a living on the web: 1000 true fans

March 6, 2008 – 1:39 am

You can always count on Kevin Kelly to sense the emerging dynamics of a system and crystallize his insight into a simple and compelling idea that he freely shares with everyone. Then this idea spreads into collective understanding such that it is hard to imagine how one actually viewed the issue beforehand. It’s almost uncanny [...]

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