Kevin Kelly: Um empregado de hotel em Deli uma vez explicou-me onde está o centro do Universo

“Um empregado de hotel em Deli uma vez explicou-me onde está o centro do Universo”.
Kevin Kelly dá uma entrevista espetacular ao Guardian a propósito do seu novo livro. Atreve-se a comparar a tecnologia à natureza. Teve a sua epifania religiosa vendo jogos de realidade virtual. Estabelece a ponte entre a cultura hippie e o surgimento da vaga tecnológica que possibilitou a Internet.

Entre outras respostas assombrosas, saco estas para aperitivo:

It is technology that creates these impossibilities?

If I went back now 20 years and told you that all of the world’s information — second-by-second stock quotes, a constantly revised encyclopaedia, 24-hour news — would be available to you for free, at all times, in your pocket, you would have dragged me off the stage as a lunatic…

Is more of this exotropic energy found in California than elsewhere?

A hotel clerk in Delhi once said to me that the centre of the universe is where there is least resistance to new ideas. The hippy origins of the computer revolution are well documented. Changing consciousness and changing tools, they have always gone together, and in our lifetime California is where this has happened.