Summary Of The Inevitable: Understanding The 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

Kevin Kelly has struck the technology world again with his new book, “The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future”, a nonfiction New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Published in 2016, it focuses on a dozen technological forces that will affect the way we live our lives in the future. Kelly’s diction allows for a beautiful flow of well-written prose that draws in the reader.
The editor of “Wired” warns against assuming the future will resemble the present and describes a dozen factors that will shape the next thirty years. Becoming, cognifying, flowing, screening… are the first few forces Kelly describes, ending with Beginning, which is almost a paradox. Becoming relates to an improvement of performance of products, which is what is happening even today. Says Kelly, in regards to this, “Even a very tiny amount of useful intelligence embedded into an existing process boosts its effectiveness to a whole other level.” He writes of remixing, where he alludes that nothing is new, only an improved version of a previously existing one that was reassembled into something new for the moment until it happens all over again. Ownership will not be a priority as technology will allow people to own virtually, as is already happening with companies like Uber and Alibaba. This book
With rapid changes in transformations of the digital age, Kelly says, “We are morphing so fast that our ability to invent new things outpaces the rate we can civilize them.” In this light, businesses and organizations are forced to act quickly and adapt fast to technology changes taking place. There is unlimited information available on the internet for literally anybody with access to it, and here Kelly describes the forced filtering, where information has to be carefully selected when determining