He likens technology to the natural world - both have their origin at the Big Bang, he says - adding that just as evolution contributes to an ecosystem, new technologies create even newer technologies. Innovations in technology, Kelly argues, increase the choices, freedoms and possibilities available to us. "Because what we know is that in the past, every great and difficult thing that has been accomplished, every breakthrough, has in fact required a very strong sense of optimism that it was possible," he said on the stage. In a 2021 TED Talk, he argued that the scale of apparently intractable issues, like global warming and poverty, are all the more reason for it. Kelly is unabashed in his pursuit for optimism. It's just that our capacity to fix things is much greater than we thought." "The thing about optimism isn't that our problems are smaller than we thought. The July 1997 issue of Wired featured a story titled The Long Boom, which predicted an optimistic future largely driven by technological advancements. "The environment doesn't look better, but we also have an ability to fix that before it gets worse. "By every measure of our own lives, we are doing better," he told Tapestry host Mary Hynes. Fossil fuels, too, would be largely phased out.ĭespite the challenges we face in 2022 - declining environment included - Kelly, an author, futurist and now senior maverick at Wired, says he has no doubts about the cover story that declared we the world was in the midst of The Long Boom. Thanks to the swift development of increasingly powerful technologies, and as globalization led to more interconnected societies and economies, wrote authors Peter Leyden and Peter Schwartz, worldwide prosperity would flourish.Ĭlimate change would be slowed by the new millennium's third decade, the scenario predicted, thanks to a rise in hybrid electric and hydrogen-powered motor vehicles. In a bold scenario published 25 years ago when Kevin Kelly was executive editor, the groundbreaking tech magazine Wired presented an optimistic outlook for the decades leading up to 2020. Tapestry 47:07 Kevin Kelly believes optimism - and technology - can solve the world's toughest problems
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