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Rule Breaker Investing

Extra: Kevin Kelly Q&A

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing, Invest, Rulebreaker, Stocks, Company, Growth, Stockmarket, Fool, Foolish

4.5928 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

One episode was not enough to contain the wit and wisdom of our guest, Kevin Kelly. In this bonus episode, David asks Kevin about the future of tracking in a “protopian” society, and then we take questions from our Motley Fool One audience.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.

0:07.0

All right, well you're here, you're back.

0:12.0

That means presumably you've enjoyed so far.

0:14.8

My conversation with Kevin Kelly, the founder of Wired about his book, The Inevitable.

0:19.2

We got through all six of the points that I'd committed to my audience that we would go over.

0:23.2

Sad not to cover points 7 through 12.

0:26.6

There's only so much time in the world, but we did want to talk a little bit more about that

0:30.2

and then go to the Q&A.

0:31.7

Thanks a lot for joining us during this Rule Breaker Investing

0:35.0

podcast Extra.

0:36.0

Take it away, producer Rick Angdahl.

0:38.0

So we're going to leave it right there for the book. to say anyone who's let's say a quarter as interested as I am

0:46.6

If they haven't already read the inevitable is is likely I hope shortly can they click over to Amazon or Audible and buy Kevin's book and enjoy

0:55.6

your additional chapters on filtering, remixing, interacting, and the three that follow those, and I do have to ask you quickly about number 10

1:04.8

tracking because it might be the most provocative chapter in the book. Whether or not

1:10.4

we think about this already, almost everything we do is getting tracked in the form of bits.

1:18.0

And what isn't yet likely will.

1:22.0

So you point out the asymmetry of this power struggle. Can you explain a bit

1:26.1

about that and then remind us that we are in a pro topia not a distopia?

1:30.5

Yeah. So let me, I'll explain Protopia first.

1:36.2

So everybody has heard of Utopia.

1:39.0

Utopia is this sort of imaginary destination where everything is perfect or at least super good.

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