How will we humans respond to the coming decline in global population at end of this century? One response is pronatalism tech now. Here is one inside view. https://t.co/YQ5yx0POMR

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) November 28, 2022

News to me: The emerging megacity along Africa's west coast. "By 2100, the Lagos-Abidjan stretch is projected to be the largest zone of continuous, dense habitation on earth, with something in the order of half a billion people." https://t.co/C3TAK6I7UR pic.twitter.com/KwxcBtNai6

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) November 21, 2022

This is a very interesting article about the death of the key change in pop music. Vertical vs linear composing.https://t.co/v40o9qahKt

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) November 21, 2022

Despite our increased power to kill, our societies are less violent than before. Progress is real. https://t.co/KqrYAn7EBD

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) November 23, 2022

One works better than the others. https://t.co/6bKMPANT3r

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) November 23, 2022

AIs can help scientists discover new laws of physics. https://t.co/qLlcQhf8up

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) November 23, 2022

Sports are evolving because of tech. Here's the latest high tech for soccer/football. https://t.co/WgDwx9hLfy

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) November 24, 2022

What is the future of image generators like Dall-e, Mid-journey, Stable Diffusion? I try to answer this in my latest @WIRED story: https://t.co/hxDSHQ3gOb

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) November 17, 2022

The folks @bigthink, who are behind this short video put a huge amount of work illustrating my ideas about Protopia and making them watchable. It's the best 7-minute talk I've done. https://t.co/PoakytydaB

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) September 21, 2022

CountThings is a very expensive phone app, but worth it if counting is part of your job. (Not just bricks, but bits in a microscope, or parts in a bin.) https://t.co/ZihLlsWpsP https://t.co/Zd2nJOGdFe

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) September 22, 2022

Rebuilding the Notre Dame cathedral with medieval tools is possible if you take the long view. https://t.co/CeXvtHeThH

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) September 14, 2022

This hypothesis is worth tracking: "Plastics may make people obese." https://t.co/sMLMwHg2gF

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) September 13, 2022

A great piece on why printing arose fast in Europe though invented first in China and Korea. Part of the answer of why science arose first in Europe and not China. https://t.co/cmf0ikJzIV

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) September 5, 2022

"Laptop landlords" is a zippy coinage for coastal people investing into cheap property in the heartland via online services. It's only a few percent of total real estate sales, but it might affect prices. https://t.co/Dyb4SWQ1Gu

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) August 29, 2022

"Cooking fanfiction" is another cultural phenom that I could have never predicted. Chefs who are into cooking dishes from their favorite fiction. https://t.co/gOBMY0w0Yt

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) August 29, 2022

That was fast. There is now a marketplace for prompts. You can buy prompts for Dalle or Midjourney to create specific art, without all that messing around and trial and error. You know, hire prompt artists! https://t.co/0f66I2xpDO

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) August 24, 2022

Now things are moving very fast. Here is a search engine for prompts for generating images. It searches Stable Diffusion for use of your words in a prompt, to see what others have done, to save you cycles. https://t.co/iYh53OVN3e

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) August 24, 2022

Classic Moore's Law has been dead for a while. Progress continues with modified Moore's Laws. The latest regime in chips are task specific chips, such as those for AI or even AI self-driving cars. Here's an accessible overview of "heterogeneous compute". https://t.co/Prb8Itxyc7

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) August 25, 2022

Recently I've been getting a lot of "wrong person" spam texts. Here is a great explanation of what the intended scam is. https://t.co/mzRmKRuL16

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) August 21, 2022

"Longtermism" is a moral perspective that says "Future people count. There could be a lot of them. We can make their lives better." According to William Macaskill as expanded in this recommended interview. https://t.co/DkmjArQLty

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) August 9, 2022

This is an important shift. We noticed it. Going to full solar can deliver an abundance mindset and emotion rather than scarcity. @pomeranian99 has a great account in https://t.co/zKiAqeATpN

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) July 29, 2022

End of the world predictions, past and present, in chronological order. https://t.co/bdmLJbH0bL

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) August 2, 2022

Pretty insightful article on the lifespans of metal. Tracking how many years different metals “last” in civilization before they are “lost” back to the environment.https://t.co/jazQBW0eQ8

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) August 4, 2022

This is a ingenious solution for private conversations in public. https://t.co/gX8MR4lRwx

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) August 4, 2022

Vehicles should be totally silent unless needed at a particular time. https://t.co/hTAzLTLGhc

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) August 4, 2022