{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcurated-questions.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fkevin-kelly-sGCEQujB","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Kevin Kelly: The Future Belongs to the Question-Makers | Kevin Kelly #31","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/bbd413c2-75d4-4441-8182-02e9e811affc/d932ac1a-4096-4516-a9cc-93a347f11588/31-20kevin-20kelly-episode-art.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"\"In any vibrant, ongoing discipline, questioning has to be at the heart of it, or there's no growth.\" - Kevin Kelly\n\nKevin Kelly is one of the most original voices in technology and culture. Kevin's career is a journey through the heart of innovation. He helped launch Wired magazine, shaping our understanding of the digital revolution. Before that, he edited the Whole Earth Review, spotlighting trends like virtual reality and online communities before they entered the mainstream.\n\nHe co-founded The WELL, one of the earliest online communities, and the Hackers Conference, which brings together the brightest minds in the tech industry. His books, including What Technology Wants and The Inevitable, challenge us to view technology as a living system, one that evolves alongside us, shaping our lives and choices. \n\nThrough his Cool Tools Project, Kevin champions practical tools that empower individuals while his work with the Long Now Foundation pushes us to think on a grander, multi-generational scale, like a 10,000-year kind of scale, whether chronicling disappearing cultures in Asia or exploring the emotional bonds we form with machines. Kevin brings relentless curiosity and optimism to every subject.\n\nIn this episode, Kevin shares his insights on the power of questioning for personal and societal growth, discussing the role of questions in driving innovation and fostering understanding. He emphasizes the importance of inefficiency and exploration in formulating impactful questions, contrasting this with AI's tendency to provide average answers. Kelly also discusses his long-term projects, such as the 10,000-year clock with the Long Now Foundation, emphasizing the importance of long-term thinking and striking a balance between stability and adaptability. The discussion highlights the value of embracing disequilibrium for intellectual and technological advancement and challenges the notion of productivity by suggesting that waste and failure are integral to the discovery process.\n\nThis Curated Questions episode can be found on all major platforms and at CuratedQuestions.com.\n\nKeep questioning!"}