The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces that will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly Kevin Kelly’s The Inevitable explores the technological trends that got us to where we are today and that continue to push us and evolve our society along certain paths into the future. This is quintessential Kevin Kelly at his best, weaving powerful metaphor and technological poetry to present a compelling narrative for our civilisation, our species, and our role in the future. While specific technologies and their projected evolution into the future are discussed, these are only incidental, a footnote, used to flesh out the main trends and forces that act on all technologies to enhance their fitness by virtue of their role as pervasive selection mechanisms operating throughout the technium and the holos. Success will come to those who tend to work with these forces, not against them. Definitely worth a read from both a futurism and philosophy of technology perspective, but also for any entrepreneur or product developer seeking to build successful businesses and products now and in the future. Selected Highlights & Excerpts: Technology is humanity’s accelerant. Because of technology everything we make is always in the process of becoming. Every kind of thing is becoming something else, while it churns from “might” to “is.” All is flux. Nothing is finished. Nothing is done. This never-ending change is the pivotal axis of the modern world. Constant flux means more than simply “things will be different.” It means processes—the engines of flux—are now more important than products. Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once we invented the scientific method, we could immediately create thousands of other amazing things we could have never discovered any other way. This methodical process of constant change and improvement was a million times better than inventing any part...