In this episode our guest is Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine, Kevin Kelly. Kevin co-founded Wired in 1993 and served as its executive editor until 1999. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website and is the former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review. Kevin Kelly has written several bestselling books including ‘New Rules for the New Economy’, ‘What Technology Wants’ and his most recent book ‘The Inevitable’.

1’07 - What’s on your mind right now?

4’24 – 24 years ago when you wrote ‘New Rules for the New Economy’, you had a very clear idea as to how the digital revolution would unfold. How do you think the development of technology has played out since then? 

8’53 – You have an incredible track record when it comes to predicting how technology is going to play out. What’s your process?

13’56 – What does social media want, and how is it evolving?

19’37 – Since writing ‘The 12 technological forces shaping our future’ a decade ago, how have those 12 forces evolved?

22’53 – What do you think the biggest challenges are for the leaders who are driving the world’s largest companies (such as Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Tencent, Alibaba etc), and if you could be a mentor to those individuals, what would you say to them?

28’51 – Can you tell us why you set up the ‘Long Now Foundation’ which promotes slower, better thinking and what impact do you think it’s had in the last 25 years?

34’06 – Which things are you most excited about when it comes to solving the biggest problems such as climate, education, health etc.

40’28 – How has Covid impacted your work? Did the pandemic spark something new in you?

43’24 – What advice would you give to young people today?

46’20 – If you were going to take a single central idea that you would be proud for future generations to take from your thinking, what would it be?

49.57 – What’s next on your horizon?

56’43 – You advised Steven Spielberg on Minority Report. What do you think 2050 is going to look like?

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