Kevin Kelly:

1
Kevin Kelly The Electronic Hive Embrace it

• Incredible optimist!
• Compares net with nature? Is this accurate?
• Does the Net prove that the laws of life can be
  applied to machines? (pg. 75 - 76)
• Claim the nature of the web guides us towards
  non-dogmatic ideas
• We are now active participants, not just passive
  observers.

2
Kevin Kelly (cont. 1)

• Web is decentralized. No one party is in charge.
  All parts are equidistant from all others (pg.
  76).
• Kelly gets very spirutual-
• techno-spiritualism wiring human and artificial
  minds into one planetary soul
• A new culture has arisen from the Net
• Net is an organism/machine

3
Kevin Kelly (cont. 2)

• Connected, yet fragmented society.
• Create your own culture, beliefs
• We are like bees, limited but part of something
  bigger. Net transcends our limited existance!
• Was George Orwell (1984) wrong concerning his
  view of the future?
• Do we become more human using the Net? (networked
  brain analogous to the Net)