RT @gregorycampion: Reading an advance copy of @kevin2kelly’s upcoming book “Excellent Advice for Living” and I now know the answer I’ll give someday when @tferriss asks me: “What book have you gifted the most?”

RT @oldbooksguy: 9/ Past as immunity from new-age BS: “A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore…immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press of his own age.”

RT @sapinker: Interview with Kevin Kelly, editor, author, and futurist, by @Noahpinion – KK is invariably among the most original & insightful analyst of tech – not the usual panic, moralizing, or sci-fi. https://open.substack.com/pub/noahpinion/p/interview-kevin-kelly-editor-author?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

RT @jacobcharold: ” human civilization is in the process of trying to become like Earth, in the sense of learning how to become a persistent system. In this century, we’re going to get a lot of harsh lessons on how not to persist.” – @stewartbrand https://www.noemamag.com/the-origins-of-planetary-realism-and-whole-earth-thinking/ h/t @NoemaMag

A splendid 11-minute NPR audio with @bonesandbugs about the good reasons for de-extincting the dodo. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/14/1163547490/could-de-extincting-the-dodo-help-struggling-species

RT @kevin2kelly: Hey @stewartbrand my prompt today was simply “Stewart Brand as a Pixar character”.

RT @ChrisStrategic: To create the future world that Tom Cruise inhabited in Minority Report, @peterschwartz2 was asked to guide an “Ideas Summit” with intellectuals including Neil Gershenfeld, @stewartbrand & @dougcoupland. Here they recount their experience 10 years later https://www.wired.com/2012/06/minority-report-idea-summit/

RT @rmnth: “All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong. There’s no escape from this grim syllogism, but it can be softened. Buildings can be designed and used so it doesn’t matter when they’re wrong.” ~ @stewartbrand, in How Buildings Learn

How to be wrong. https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1635786987344125952

RT @stewartbrand: @JurassicParks @KatjaGrace The trick is telling Bing Chat to do research for each question or request. You know the ballpark; it knows the Web. (So says @emollick)