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Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.
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Kevin Kelly
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 28
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A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead.
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Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.
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