Kevin Kelly

And my partner at Cool Tools, Mark Frenfeld, are very good at kind of saying things

Something really important is happening right here.

These things are interesting and different, but they're not as important as this thing happening right here.

And I think I've done that long enough that I think I also have a mastery in that as well.

It doesn't have a real name right now.

It's not predictions.

It's not facts.

forecasting.

It's in that general vicinity, but it's much more like a spidey sense.

You know, I wrote about e-money in my first book, 1994.

I had a whole chapter on digital money.

I gave that chapter to Stephen Levy.

And the first issue of Wired, he went on to write the crypto stuff.

And so that was like, oh, this is, I think this is really important.

Here's these weird guys who are working on it.

And I think that is one of the things I've mastered over these 40 or 50 years is that sense of there's something crucial happening right here.

Yeah, that's a good question.

One of the energy signatures is a depth to it.

There's a sense in which you encounter it and then there are these practitioners or people who are plumbing it.

They're kind of going there, they're mining it.