The Inevitable Forces That Will Shape Our Future with Kevin Kelly

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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I truly do believe that this is both the very best time in the history of the universe, as far as we can tell, to make something because the tools for creation have never been more easily gotten, they’ve never been cheaper. They’ve never been better. They’ve never been as diverse. And they truly make things more accessible. So if you want to make something that has been made already like a book, a movie, a song, the tools do that are just about free, which means almost anybody in the world can get their hands on it. And many of these things in previous generations were prohibitively expensive and relegated to the elites. But now you can make a book that looks as good as a best-selling author can make, and you can distribute it, and it costs very little do…We are at a moment right now in terms of what’s ahead of us, that it’s a very rapidly expanding opening. We’re on the cusp of all these very transformative technologies and trends that will produce more stuff and opportunities in the next 50 years than in the past 50 years as much as that’s hard to believe. – Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired Magazine, and author of The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

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0:00.0	I truly do believe that this is both the very best time in the history of the
0:07.5	universe as far as we can tell these history of this world to make something
0:11.7	because this world to make something because the tools for creation have never been more easily
0:18.8	gotten. They've never been cheaper, they've never been better, they've never been this diverse and they truly are
0:27.0	making things more accessible so if you want to make something that has sort of been made already,
0:34.0	like in terms like a book, a movie, a song, some of the tools to do that are just about free and which means almost anybody in the world can get their
0:46.7	hands on it so and and many of these things in previous generations were
0:52.2	prohibitively expensive and really relegated to the to
0:56.2	the elites but now you can make a book that looks as good as a book that the hottest
1:02.3	bestseller author can make and you can distribute it costs very
1:07.0	very little to do. So that's and then the new things that were making that have been as well worn, like, you know, web apps or websites and things like that are also
1:21.0	easier than before and even making hardware things there's more and more tools.
1:27.0	So it's, it really is the best time in terms of tools. And then the second bit of that convergence is that we're at a moment
1:37.6	right now where in terms of what's ahead of us it's it's a very rapidly expanding opening that we're on the cusp of all these very transformative technologies and trends that will produce more stuff and opportunities in the next 50 years and then in the past 50 years
2:08.6	as much as that's hard to believe.
2:11.1	I'm Srini Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built driving businesses, written best-selling books, and created
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