I think I'm gonna binge on his stuff. He seems like a really cool dude. I recall his optimism getting a lot of flak in the late 2010s but he seems to really care and celebrate think deeply about our culture. That techno-optimism garbage was deeply embarrassing and fascist but I think I can get behind Kelly's brand of optimism. Check out "the third culture" article that I just submitted. So much of the stuff he says in passing in that article is still verrrrry relevant today.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39378589
This book was seriously influential to me in 1994 when a friend leant me his hard cover copy. Arguably, Out of Control, Snowcrash, (and a less well known book called Goatwalking) defined my whole early 20s aesthetic and outlook.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 39.5 ms ] threadPDF: https://kk.org/mt-files/books-mt/ooc-mf.pdf
https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/fast-cheap.pdf
https://kk.org/mt-files/outofcontrol/ch3-b.html