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Kevin Kelly
This nOde last updated January 20th, 2004 and is permanently morphing...
(9 Ik (Wind) / 10 (Muan (Owl) - 22/260 - 12.19.10.17.2)

authored _Out of Control_

editor in chief  of _WIRED_ magazine in 1998

"An event is not triggered by a chain of being, but by a field of causes spreading horizontally, like creeping tide. "
- --Kevin Kelly

The "I" of a vivisystem is a ghost. Like the transient form of a whirlpool held upright by a million spinning atoms of water, it can be scattered with a fingertip. - Kevin Kelly

• Anomalog:
  • In The Beginning There Was A 0 And A1
  • Music Will Come From Those Who Steal It - It Always Has

I am unqaulified to be doing what I do. I am a college dropout. I went to Asia instead of college. I spent the 1970s, off and on, roaming remote parts of Asia as a photographer. I now have 36,000 slides of an Asia that is no longer, and a great appreciation of the ephemeral nature of civilizations.  (Kevin Kelly)

At today's rates of compression, you could download the entire 3 billion digits of your DNA onto about four CDs. That 3-gigabyte genome sequence represents the prime coding information of a human body — your life as numbers. Biology, that pulsating mass of plant and animal flesh, is conceived by science today as an information process. As computers keep shrinking, we can imagine our complex bodies being numerically condensed to the size of two tiny cells. These micro-memory devices are called the egg and sperm. They are packed with information.

That life might be information, as biologists propose, is far more intuitive than the corresponding idea that hard matter is information as well. When we bang a knee against a table leg, it sure doesn't feel like we knocked into information. But that's the idea many physicists are formulating. (Kevin Kelly)

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