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Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Kevin Kelly

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Digital visionary, bestselling author, founder of the popular Cool Tools website, and Co-Founder and Senior Maverick of Wired magazine—Kevin Kelly joins to talk about his career, his new book, and his radical optimism about the future of our world and humanity.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ted Audio Collective

0:07.8

Creativity rather than being a high-order, rarefied quality is actually very primitive.

0:16.1

It's actually elemental.

0:17.8

It's so elemental that we can actually make machines do it.

0:24.7

On the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman.

0:32.1

For 18 years, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative people

0:35.6

about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about

0:39.5

and working on.

0:41.4

On this episode, Kevin Kelly talks about technology, creativity, and AI.

0:47.0

These large language models cannot make art that's not tethered to language.

0:56.3

Hello friends, this is Debbie Millman, the host of Design Matters with a very special announcement.

1:02.6

I'm taking my podcast on tour this September.

1:06.2

Now you can experience what it's like to sit in on a live design matters interview.

1:11.6

I'm also bringing along a special co-host for the ride.

1:15.2

I'll be joined by New York Times best-selling author Roxanne Gay, and we will be traveling

1:20.3

to four cities to sit down with cultural luminaries, Celeste Ding in Boston, Karris Wischer

1:26.8

in DC, Audie Cornish in Philly, and a double-header in New York City featuring Jada Bumrad

1:33.5

from Radio Lab and the Emmy-nominated comedian Roy Wood Jr.

1:39.2

Tickets are moving fast, so get yours today.

1:41.7

All the details are at onAirPresents.com, that's onAirPresents.com.

1:47.7

I hope to see you there.

1:51.0

Kevin Kelly is radically optimistic about the future.

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